A27 crash in Wealden on 9 August 2016 at 17:00 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo, a Nissan X-Trail and a Peugeot 306 were involved in a crash on the A27 in Wealden at 17:00 on Tuesday 9 August 2016. A male passenger aged under 1 in the Ford Mondeo and a 19-year-old female passenger in the Ford Mondeo were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Aug 2016
- Tuesday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Mondeo and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82299, longitude 0.33394, in the BN24 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Herstmonceux & Pevensey Levels, Wealden, BN24 5LN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016471604777
- Council area
- Wealden
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 27
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 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, 19 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 21 April 2019.
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the A27 in Wealden, 21 April 2019
19 m awayRef 2019471902068
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A27 in Wealden, 9 August 2003
25 m awayRef 200347K165873
Serious
Vauxhall Meriva crash on the A27 in Wealden, 11 January 2008
47 m awayRef 2008470800235
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A27 in Wealden, 9 November 2020
138 m awayRef 2020470997009
Slight
Morris Ital crash on the A27 in Wealden, 21 October 1992
186 m awayRef 199247SA20429
Serious
Audi A4 crash on the A27 in Wealden, 30 October 2019
188 m awayRef 2019470894386
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Nissan X-Trail
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 3: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged under 1, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- 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 2016471604777 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.