A267 crash in Wealden on 20 December 2014 at 10:15 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra and a Kawasaki ZR800 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A267 in Wealden at 10:15 on Saturday 20 December 2014. The 22-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki ZR800 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2014
- Saturday, 10:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Vectra and Kawasaki ZR800
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.97401, longitude 0.22285, in the TN21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cross in Hand. It is one of the crashes that make up the Framfield & Cross-in-Hand, Wealden, TN21 0UE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014471407509
- 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
- 267
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 February 1982.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A267 in Wealden, 27 February 1982
5 m awayRef 198247SA20111
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A267 in Wealden, 26 February 1980
9 m awayRef 198047SA00084
Slight
Chrysler Neon crash on the A267 in Eastbourne, 31 May 2002
9 m awayRef 200247K151374
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A267 in Wealden, 4 October 2003
9 m awayRef 200347K167503
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A267 in Wealden, 24 April 2008
9 m awayRef 2008470803366
Slight
Car crash on the A267 in Wealden, 1 September 1988
9 m awayRef 198847SA80384
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Kawasaki ZR800
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 806 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 22, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Kawasaki ZR800)
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 2014471407509 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.