A259 crash in Wealden on 4 July 2012 at 01:35 involving a Ford Fiesta
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Jul 2012
- Wednesday, 01:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.76282, longitude 0.19333, in the BN20 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the South Downs, Wealden, BN20 0HB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012471203398
- 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
- 259
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 4 August 1984.
Serious
Car crash on the A259 in Wealden, 4 August 1984
5 m awayRef 198447SA40413
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Wealden, 26 May 1980
11 m awayRef 198047SA00212
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A259 in Wealden, 31 July 1997
21 m awayRef 199747SA70522
Fatal
Bedford crash on the A259 in Wealden, 14 August 1993
30 m awayRef 199347SA30470
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A259 in Wealden, 16 May 1986
30 m awayRef 198647UA60218
Fatal
Ford Fiesta crash on the A259 in Wealden, 3 July 1997
30 m awayRef 199747SA70449
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2012471203398 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.