Serious unclassified road crash in Wealden TN22 on 12 July 2015 at 02:59 involving a Fiat 500
A Fiat 500 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wealden at 02:59 on Sunday 12 July 2015. An 18-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Jul 2015
- Sunday, 02:59
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat 500
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.97392, longitude 0.09775, in the TN22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Uckfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Uckfield East, Wealden, TN22 1PX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015471503978
- 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
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 98%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 2%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 October 1996.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Wealden, 19 October 1996
6 m awayRef 199647HA60653
Slight
Fiat Bravo crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 5 October 2018
14 m awayRef 2018471805577
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on a C road in Wealden, 26 August 2011
28 m awayRef 2011471105284
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on a C road in Wealden, 4 August 2010
30 m awayRef 2010471005100
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Wealden, 21 December 1988
44 m awayRef 198847HA80836
Fatal
Vauxhall Combo crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 7 April 2005
48 m awayRef 2005470502478
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 18, hit by vehicle 1 (Fiat 500)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2015471503978 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.