A22 crash in Wealden on 5 August 2016 at 16:40 involving a Porsche Cayman
A Porsche Cayman and a Toyota Yaris were involved in a crash on the A22 in Wealden at 16:40 on Friday 5 August 2016. A 72-year-old female passenger in the Porsche Cayman was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Aug 2016
- Friday, 16:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Porsche Cayman and Toyota Yaris
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.9418, longitude 0.11675, in the TN22 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Framfield & Cross-in-Hand, Wealden, TN22 5QN area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016471604696
- 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
- 22
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Unclassified
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
- Involvement with previous collision
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 serious injury crash on 11 August 1988.
Serious
Car crash on the A22 in Wealden, 11 August 1988
2 m awayRef 198847HA80506
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Wealden, 16 February 2005
2 m awayRef 2005470501116
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A22 in Wealden, 28 March 2025
4 m awayRef 2025471570819
Slight
Lexus UX 250 crash on the A22 in Wealden, 12 December 2024
9 m awayRef 2024471529371
Slight
Audi crash on the A22 in Wealden, 6 December 2006
9 m awayRef 2006470610652
Serious
Volvo 460 crash on the A22 in Wealden, 4 November 2005
9 m awayRef 2005470509276
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Porsche Cayman
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 72 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,436 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 72, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Porsche Cayman)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2016471604696 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.