B2026 crash in Wealden on 23 February 2012 at 18:35 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Toyota Yaris were involved in a crash on the B2026 in Wealden at 18:35 on Thursday 23 February 2012. The 49-year-old male driver of the Toyota Yaris was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Feb 2012
- Thursday, 18:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Toyota Yaris
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.01887, longitude 0.0879, 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
- 2012471201011
- Council area
- Wealden
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2026
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 October 2017.
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the B2026 in Wealden, 13 October 2017
7 m awayRef 2017471705790
Slight
Car crash on the B2026 in Wealden, 7 October 1983
10 m awayRef 198347SA30651
Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on the B2026 in Wealden, 18 December 2006
10 m awayRef 2006470611154
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on a C road in Wealden, 24 April 2003
14 m awayRef 200347K162249
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the B2026 in Wealden, 2 August 2013
20 m awayRef 2013471304030
Slight
Car crash on the B2026 in Wealden, 17 February 1984
22 m awayRef 198447SA40113
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Yaris)
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 2012471201011 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 2012.