Unclassified road crash in Wealden BN27 on 23 March 2015 at 20:30 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wealden at 20:30 on Monday 23 March 2015. The 56-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Mar 2015
- Monday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.85662, longitude 0.2621, in the BN27 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hailsham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hailsham East, Wealden, BN27 2HW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015471501629
- Council area
- Wealden
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 December 2000.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 22 December 2000
22 m awayRef 200047S131685
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Wealden, 14 February 1984
28 m awayRef 198447SA40110
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Wealden, 27 October 1982
28 m awayRef 198247SA20754
Slight
Mercedes crash on a C road in Wealden, 29 August 1996
42 m awayRef 199647SA60609
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Wealden, 19 November 2009
72 m awayRef 2009470908654
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 8 June 1983
73 m awayRef 198347SA30326
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 56, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 2015471501629 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 2015.