Serious unclassified road crash in Wealden TN3 on 24 February 2017 at 11:35 involving a Mercedes V Class
A Mercedes V Class and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wealden at 11:35 on Friday 24 February 2017. The 39-year-old male driver of the Mercedes V Class was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Feb 2017
- Friday, 11:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes V Class and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.10815, longitude 0.23529, in the TN3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Withyham, Wealden, TN3 9BY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017470164336
- 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
- 30 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
- A
- Second road number
- 26
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
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 10 May 1994.
Serious
Rover 800 Series crash on the A26 in Wealden, 10 May 1994
6 m awayRef 199447HA40268
Serious
Van crash on the A26 in Wealden, 15 June 1979
6 m awayRef 197947RA90193
Slight
Car crash on the A26 in Wealden, 30 January 1980
6 m awayRef 198047RA00026
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A26 in Wealden, 19 May 1997
6 m awayRef 199747HA70321
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A26 in Wealden, 25 June 1997
6 m awayRef 199747HA70440
Slight
Van crash on the A26 in Wealden, 29 September 2015
6 m awayRef 2015471505830
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes V Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes V Class)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- 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 2017470164336 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 2017.