Serious B2110 crash in Wealden on 16 December 2008 at 14:20 involving a Rover Mini
A Rover Mini and a Vauxhall Zafira were involved in a crash on the B2110 in Wealden at 14:20 on Tuesday 16 December 2008. The 18-year-old male driver of the Rover Mini was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Dec 2008
- Tuesday, 14:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover Mini and Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.10438, longitude 0.14889, in the TN7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008470809773
- Council area
- Wealden
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2110
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 97%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 3%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 February 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the B2110 in Wealden, 21 February 1985
10 m awayRef 198547UA50027
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B2110 in Wealden, 27 February 2008
42 m awayRef 2008470801644
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the B2110 in Wealden, 29 June 1993
45 m awayRef 199347HA30394
Serious
Car crash on the B2110 in Wealden, 10 November 2005
45 m awayRef 2005470509533
Fatal
Peugeot 205 crash on the B2110 in Wealden, 22 December 2005
57 m awayRef 2005470511076
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the B2110 in Wealden, 9 September 2008
71 m awayRef 2008470806994
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover Mini
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,275 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover Mini)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2008470809773 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wealden road accident statistics for 2008.