C road crash in Wealden TN21 on 31 October 2013 at 10:40 involving a Mercedes CLK Class
A Mercedes CLK Class and a Mercedes lorry were involved in a crash on a C road in Wealden at 10:40 on Thursday 31 October 2013. A 19-year-old male pedestrian hit by the Mercedes CLK Class was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Oct 2013
- Thursday, 10:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes CLK Class and Mercedes
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.95974, longitude 0.22361, in the TN21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cross in Hand.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013471305951
- Council area
- Wealden
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 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, 125 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 May 1985.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Wealden, 24 May 1985
125 m awayRef 198547UA50118
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 14 September 2005
306 m awayRef 2005470507834
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 27 January 2015
347 m awayRef 2015471500596
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Wealden, 4 March 1987
369 m awayRef 198747SA70084
Serious
Leyland DAF FA 45 crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 3 March 2004
495 m awayRef 200447K172675
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on a C road in Wealden, 11 September 1996
509 m awayRef 199647SA60639
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes CLK Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,266 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes CLK Class)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
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 2013471305951 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.