Skip to main content
CrashStats

A27 crash in Wealden on 20 April 2013 at 16:09 involving a car

A car crashed on the A27 in Wealden at 16:09 on Saturday 20 April 2013. The 59-year-old female driver was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
20 Apr 2013
Saturday, 16:09
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.8206, longitude 0.23866, in the BN26 postcode district and within the built-up area of Polegate. It is one of the crashes that make up the Polegate North, Wealden, BN26 6BY area accident hotspot.

Map of where the crash happened in Wealden

Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.

  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
2013471301971
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
40 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Trunk road (National Highways)

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
A
Second road number
2270

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Pedestrian phase at traffic signal

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, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 July 1987.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Slowing or stopping
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    North
    Position at junction
    Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
    Hit object in carriageway
    Kerb
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Lamp post
    First point of impact
    Front
    Left-hand drive
    No
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    59 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Female, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

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 2013471301971 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.