Serious A22 crash in Wealden on 3 November 2012 at 20:13 involving a BMW 5 Series
A bicycle and a BMW 5 Series were involved in a crash on the A22 in Wealden at 20:13 on Saturday 3 November 2012. The 18-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 3 Nov 2012
- Saturday, 20:13
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and BMW 5 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.01414, longitude 0.07115, in the TN22 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Maresfield, Wealden, TN22 3EP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012471205798
- 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
- 22
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 97%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 3%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 January 1997.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A22 in Wealden, 16 January 1997
10 m awayRef 199747HA70040
Serious
Land Rover Defender crash on the A22 in Wealden, 17 April 2010
14 m awayRef 2010471002470
Serious
Nissan Serena crash on the A22 in Wealden, 18 May 1999
22 m awayRef 199947H002719
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A22 in Wealden, 7 September 2009
22 m awayRef 2009470906531
Slight
Bedford crash on the A22 in Wealden, 11 April 2000
22 m awayRef 200047S004906
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the A22 in Wealden, 20 June 1998
22 m awayRef 199847H000587
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 18, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 2012471205798 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.