Serious unclassified road crash in Wealden TN22 on 9 June 2015 at 19:26 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Wealden at 19:26 on Tuesday 9 June 2015. The 70-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Jun 2015
- Tuesday, 19:26
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.04008, longitude 0.06867, in the TN22 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015471503223
- Council area
- Wealden
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 99%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 1%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 46 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 August 2007.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Wealden, 6 August 2007
46 m awayRef 2007470706569
Serious
Suzuki GSXR crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 31 August 2025
108 m awayRef 2025471635418
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Wealden, 12 June 2013
125 m awayRef 2013471302971
Serious
Audi A3 crash on a C road in Wealden, 17 December 2013
126 m awayRef 2013471306878
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Wealden, 11 October 1980
138 m awayRef 198047RA00352
Slight
Renault 11 crash on a C road in Wealden, 4 March 2003
139 m awayRef 200347K160548
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 500 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 55 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 70, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 2015471503223 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.