A271 crash in Wealden on 26 December 2013 at 09:16 involving a Peugeot 206
A Peugeot 206 and a Vauxhall Insignia were involved in a crash on the A271 in Wealden at 09:16 on Thursday 26 December 2013. The 34-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 206, a 33-year-old male passenger in the Peugeot 206 and the 24-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Insignia were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Dec 2013
- Thursday, 09:16
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 206 and Vauxhall Insignia
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.88177, longitude 0.35569, in the BN27 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013471307040
- 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
- 271
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 April 1995.
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A271 in Wealden, 8 April 1995
4 m awayRef 199547SA50266
Slight
Renault Extra crash on the A271 in Wealden, 14 July 2004
4 m awayRef 200447K176807
Slight
Toyota Landcruiser crash on the A271 in Wealden, 23 December 2002
4 m awayRef 200247K158307
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A271 in Wealden, 5 October 1987
4 m awayRef 198747SA70448
Slight
Nissan Juke crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 7 October 2020
4 m awayRef 2020470990613
Serious
Mercedes B Class crash on the A271 in Wealden, 1 January 2025
5 m awayRef 2025471536593
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Insignia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,956 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Insignia)
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 2013471307040 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.