A22 crash in Wealden on 21 March 2013 at 05:47 involving a Volkswagen Polo
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Mar 2013
- Thursday, 05:47
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.10208, longitude 0.03392, in the RH18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ashurst Wood. It is one of the crashes that make up the Forest Row, Wealden, RH18 5HE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013471301514
- 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
- 30 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 4 metres away, was a fatal crash on 5 March 2004.
Fatal
Ford Transit crash on the A22 in Wealden, 5 March 2004
4 m awayRef 200447K172620
Serious
Peugeot 207 crash on the A22 in Wealden, 25 May 2020
9 m awayRef 2020470953482
Slight
Car crash on the A22 in Wealden, 11 April 1986
13 m awayRef 198647HA60152
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A22 in Wealden, 23 February 1991
13 m awayRef 199147LA10078
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the A22 in Wealden, 20 August 2025
18 m awayRef 2025471631343
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the A22 in Wealden, 31 August 2015
20 m awayRef 2015471505024
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 2013471301514 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 2013.