Serious A22 crash in Wealden on 18 June 2013 at 15:22 involving a Harley-Davidson FLS motorcycle
A car and a Harley-Davidson FLS motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A22 in Wealden at 15:22 on Tuesday 18 June 2013. The 25-year-old male rider of the Harley-Davidson FLS motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Jun 2013
- Tuesday, 15:22
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Harley-Davidson FLS
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.89082, longitude 0.18472, in the BN27 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chiddingly, East Hoathly & Waldron, Wealden, BN8 6JE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013471303096
- 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
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
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
- 98%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 2%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 7 November 2024.
Slight
Peugeot 107 crash on the A22 in Wealden, 7 November 2024
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Slight
Citroen C1 crash on the A22 in Wealden, 21 August 2006
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Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A22 in Wealden, 1 June 2002
2 m awayRef 200247K151436
Serious
Ford Granada crash on the A22 in Wealden, 17 September 2000
2 m awayRef 200047S126760
Serious
Ford B-Max crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 22 April 2023
3 m awayRef 2023471299709
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 9 July 2022
4 m awayRef 2022471196800
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 81 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Harley-Davidson FLS
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,585 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 25, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Harley-Davidson FLS)
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 2013471303096 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.