A264 crash in Wealden on 3 September 2016 at 23:32 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the A264 in Wealden at 23:32 on Saturday 3 September 2016. A 19-year-old male passenger and a 23-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Sep 2016
- Saturday, 23:32
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.13212, longitude 0.11426, in the TN3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016471605315
- 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
- 264
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining with 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, 44 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 January 1993.
Slight
Talbot Solara crash on the A264 in Wealden, 16 January 1993
44 m awayRef 199347HA30054
Serious
Suzuki crash on the A264 in Wealden, 10 August 2003
95 m awayRef 200347K165868
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A264 in Wealden, 24 December 1997
113 m awayRef 199747HA70924
Serious
Car crash on the A264 in Wealden, 13 November 1983
166 m awayRef 198347HA30036
Slight
Car crash on the A264 in Wealden, 17 November 1979
179 m awayRef 197947RA90407
Slight
Car crash on the A264 in Wealden, 20 September 1980
180 m awayRef 198047RA00321
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2016471605315 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.