A271 crash in Wealden on 24 October 2015 at 01:25 involving a Toyota Corolla
A Toyota Corolla crashed on the A271 in Wealden at 01:25 on Saturday 24 October 2015. The 29-year-old female driver and a 31-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Oct 2015
- Saturday, 01:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Corolla
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.88126, longitude 0.24143, in the BN27 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hellingly, Wealden, BN27 4DP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015471506230
- Council area
- Wealden
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 271
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 2104
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 January 2004.
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A271 in Wealden, 1 January 2004
4 m awayRef 200447K170546
Slight
Car crash on the A271 in Wealden, 5 December 1989
9 m awayRef 198947SA90577
Slight
Car crash on the A271 in Wealden, 7 July 1983
9 m awayRef 198347SA30421
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A271 in Wealden, 23 October 2014
9 m awayRef 2014471406242
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A271 in Wealden, 7 July 1992
10 m awayRef 199247SA20339
Serious
Citroen C4 crash on the A271 in Wealden, 27 December 2019
11 m awayRef 2019470913649
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Corolla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Corolla)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Corolla)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2015471506230 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.