A271 crash in Wealden on 9 June 2012 at 15:08 involving a Kawasaki ZX636 motorcycle
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Jun 2012
- Saturday, 15:08
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kawasaki ZX636
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.8793, longitude 0.28864, in the BN27 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012471202941
- Council area
- Wealden
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 271
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a fatal crash on 23 February 1985.
Fatal
Car crash on the A271 in Wealden, 23 February 1985
At the same spotRef 198547SA50070
Slight
Car crash on the A271 in Wealden, 24 October 1988
10 m awayRef 198847SA80471
Fatal
Car crash on the A271 in Wealden, 28 December 1981
10 m awayRef 198147SA10546
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A271 in Wealden, 8 May 2018
24 m awayRef 2018471802458
Serious
Car crash on the A271 in Wealden, 19 July 2023
28 m awayRef 2023471331237
Slight
Bedford Astra crash on the A27 in Wealden, 26 October 1995
30 m awayRef 199547SA50721
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ZX636
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 636 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 32, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ZX636)
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 2012471202941 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.