A259 crash in Wealden on 17 September 2013 at 16:02 involving a Seat Leon
A Seat Leon, a Mercedes Sprinter van and a Nissan Almera were involved in a crash on the A259 in Wealden at 16:02 on Tuesday 17 September 2013. A 24-year-old male passenger in the Mercedes Sprinter van and the 33-year-old male driver of the Nissan Almera were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Sep 2013
- Tuesday, 16:02
- Vehicles
- 3
- Seat Leon and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.8483, longitude 0.39158, in the TN33 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Herstmonceux & Pevensey Levels, Wealden, TN33 9HH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013471304896
- 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
- 259
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 July 1993.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A259 in Wealden, 1 July 1993
8 m awayRef 199347TA30272
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A259 in Wealden, 20 July 1999
12 m awayRef 199947T002823
Serious
Yamaha YZF R1 crash on the A259 in Wealden, 16 May 2017
16 m awayRef 2017471702691
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A259 in Wealden, 16 May 2018
26 m awayRef 2018471802667
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Wealden, 29 May 2024
32 m awayRef 2024471449578
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Wealden, 15 December 1981
50 m awayRef 198147TA10610
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Seat Leon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 3: Nissan Almera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,769 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 24, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes Sprinter)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Nissan Almera)
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 2013471304896 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.