A259 crash in Wealden on 17 December 2014 at 08:15 involving a Land Rover Discovery
A Land Rover Discovery and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A259 in Wealden at 08:15 on Wednesday 17 December 2014. The 35-year-old female driver of the Land Rover Discovery was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 2014
- Wednesday, 08:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Land Rover Discovery and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81052, longitude 0.34689, in the BN24 postcode district and within the built-up area of Pevensey Bay.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014471407443
- 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
- 259
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 26 May 2012.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A259 in Wealden, 26 May 2012
1 m awayRef 2012471202705
Serious
Car crash on the A259 in Wealden, 21 September 1979
22 m awayRef 197947SA90461
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A259 in Wealden, 1 February 1994
22 m awayRef 199447SA40062
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A259 in Wealden, 3 September 2021
24 m awayRef 2021471083872
Slight
Renault 25 crash on the A259 in Wealden, 15 January 2003
59 m awayRef 200347K159002
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A317 in Runnymede, 20 January 1994
65 m awayRef 199445NA00034
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Discovery
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,495 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Discovery)
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 2014471407443 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.