A267 crash in Wealden on 2 August 2013 at 08:25 involving a Mercedes lorry
A Mercedes lorry and a Smart Forfour were involved in a crash on the A267 in Wealden at 08:25 on Friday 2 August 2013. The 33-year-old female driver of the Smart Forfour was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Aug 2013
- Friday, 08:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes and Smart Forfour
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.00941, longitude 0.23086, in the TN20 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Mayfield & Five Ashes, Wealden, TN20 6HN area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013471304022
- Council area
- Wealden
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 267
- 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
- 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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 November 2016.
Slight
Kia Venga crash on the A267 in Wealden, 6 November 2016
6 m awayRef 2016471606664
Slight
Renault 16 crash on the A267 in Wealden, 8 September 1991
12 m awayRef 199147LA10360
Slight
Skoda Favorit crash on the A267 in Wealden, 16 September 1998
12 m awayRef 199847H001125
Serious
Vauxhall Agila crash on the A267 in Wealden, 2 September 2023
13 m awayRef 2023471347957
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A267 in Wealden, 6 June 1993
23 m awayRef 199347HA30322
Slight
Leyland DAF FTG 85 crash on the A267 in Wealden, 27 December 2001
49 m awayRef 200147S146129
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Vehicle 2: Smart Forfour
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,332 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Smart Forfour)
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 2013471304022 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.