Serious A269 crash in Wealden on 8 August 2011 at 17:25 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Suzuki GSF 1200 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A269 in Wealden at 17:25 on Monday 8 August 2011. The 45-year-old male rider of the Suzuki GSF 1200 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Aug 2011
- Monday, 17:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Suzuki GSF 1200
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.88731, longitude 0.42213, in the TN33 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ninfield.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011471104944
- Council area
- Wealden
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 269
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 December 2000.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A269 in Wealden, 14 December 2000
At the same spotRef 200047T130646
Slight
Land Rover 110 crash on the A269 in Wealden, 14 July 2007
At the same spotRef 2007470705893
Serious
Car crash on the A271 in Wealden, 2 February 1988
10 m awayRef 198847TA80065
Slight
Car crash on the A271 in Wealden, 19 June 1981
10 m awayRef 198147TA10266
Slight
Jaguar Sovereign crash on the A269 in Wealden, 4 January 1996
14 m awayRef 199647TA60006
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 12 October 1997
14 m awayRef 199747TA70547
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki GSF 1200
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,157 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 45, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Suzuki GSF 1200)
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 2011471104944 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 2011.