Unclassified road crash in Wealden TN22 on 28 September 2011 at 11:50 involving a Mercedes Sprinter van
A car and a Mercedes Sprinter van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wealden at 11:50 on Wednesday 28 September 2011. The 43-year-old male driver of the Mercedes Sprinter van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Sep 2011
- Wednesday, 11:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Mercedes Sprinter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.00914, longitude 0.12866, in the TN22 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011471106277
- Council area
- Wealden
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 August 1980.
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Wealden, 28 August 1980
28 m awayRef 198047RA00292
Slight
Lorry crash on a C road in Wealden, 5 June 1981
51 m awayRef 198147RA10190
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Wealden, 21 May 1980
143 m awayRef 198047RA00154
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Wealden, 18 August 1985
194 m awayRef 198547UA50279
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Wealden, 22 December 1982
210 m awayRef 198247SA20922
Serious
Horse rider crash on a C road in Wealden, 9 April 2014
330 m awayRef 2014471401898
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,151 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes Sprinter)
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 2011471106277 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.