Unclassified road crash in Wealden BN20 on 11 January 2016 at 14:30 involving a Citroen C1
A Citroen C1 and a Ford Mondeo taxi were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wealden at 14:30 on Monday 11 January 2016. The 60-year-old male driver of the Ford Mondeo taxi was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Jan 2016
- Monday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen C1 and Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.80222, longitude 0.252, in the BN20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lower Willingdon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Upper Willingdon, Wealden, BN22 0LA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016471600212
- 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
- 40 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 July 1986.
Serious
Car crash on the A22 in Wealden, 19 July 1986
4 m awayRef 198647UA60335
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A22 in Wealden, 10 October 1994
17 m awayRef 199447SA40664
Slight
Car crash on the A22 in Wealden, 6 March 1980
24 m awayRef 198047SA00116
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A2270 in Wealden, 16 August 2014
25 m awayRef 2014471404857
Slight
Car crash on the A22 in Wealden, 10 June 1980
26 m awayRef 198047SA00240
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A2270 in Wealden, 5 July 2012
34 m awayRef 2012471203420
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C1
Car
- 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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 60, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Mondeo)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
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 2016471600212 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 2016.