Unclassified road crash in Wealden TN22 on 14 April 2016 at 14:00 involving a Mercedes Sprinter van
A Mercedes Sprinter van and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wealden at 14:00 on Thursday 14 April 2016. A 47-year-old male passenger in the Mercedes Sprinter van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Apr 2016
- Thursday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes Sprinter and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.99183, longitude 0.09566, in the TN22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Five Ash Down. It is one of the crashes that make up the Uckfield North, Wealden, TN22 2EA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016471602161
- 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
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 272
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
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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 August 2002.
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A272 in Wealden, 25 August 2002
2 m awayRef 200247K154001
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A272 in Wealden, 27 February 1996
2 m awayRef 199647HA60130
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Wealden, 14 January 1989
2 m awayRef 198947HA90018
Serious
Car crash on the A272 in Wealden, 27 May 1989
2 m awayRef 198947LA90204
Slight
Car crash on the A22 in Wealden, 23 February 1981
2 m awayRef 198147RA10060
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Wealden, 22 November 1988
2 m awayRef 198847HA80758
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 47, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes Sprinter)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least 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 2016471602161 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.