A265 crash in Wealden on 14 October 2014 at 10:22 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A265 in Wealden at 10:22 on Tuesday 14 October 2014. The 50-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Oct 2014
- Tuesday, 10:22
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Vectra and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.98193, longitude 0.30482, in the TN21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Burwash Common.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014471406014
- 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
- 265
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 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 December 1997.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A265 in Wealden, 8 December 1997
4 m awayRef 199747TA70646
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the A265 in Wealden, 14 September 2006
4 m awayRef 2006470607704
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on the A265 in Wealden, 19 November 2005
6 m awayRef 2005470509861
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A265 in Wealden, 26 February 1993
12 m awayRef 199347SA30177
Slight
Car crash on the A265 in Wealden, 24 August 1988
12 m awayRef 198847SA80352
Serious
MZ crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 23 March 1991
12 m awayRef 199147SA10098
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 2014471406014 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 2014.