A27 crash in Wealden on 9 September 2012 at 15:50 involving a motorcycle
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Sep 2012
- Sunday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82233, longitude 0.19725, in the BN26 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the South Downs, Wealden, BN26 5SQ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012471204685
- 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
- 27
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 May 1992.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A27 in Wealden, 15 May 1992
10 m awayRef 199247SA20198
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A27 in Wealden, 30 June 1989
10 m awayRef 198947SA90295
Serious
Van crash on the A27 in Wealden, 31 August 1988
10 m awayRef 198847SA80363
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A27 in Wealden, 10 January 2014
18 m awayRef 2014471400141
Slight
Car crash on the A27 in Wealden, 25 December 1979
20 m awayRef 197947SA90628
Slight
Ford crash on the A27 in Wealden, 15 March 1990
20 m awayRef 199047SA00111
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 30, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 2012471204685 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.