Serious unclassified road crash in Wealden TN22 on 4 June 2017 at 23:25 involving a Peugeot 307
A Peugeot 307 crashed on an unclassified road in Wealden at 23:25 on Sunday 4 June 2017. The 28-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Jun 2017
- Sunday, 23:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 307
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.98912, longitude 0.10431, in the TN22 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Uckfield North, Wealden, TN22 2EA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017471703076
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 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
- 98%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 2%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 February 2009.
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on a C road in Wealden, 13 February 2009
5 m awayRef 2009470901228
Slight
Austin Mini crash on the A26 in Wealden, 10 November 1993
5 m awayRef 199347HA30674
Serious
Car crash on the A26 in Wealden, 21 September 1981
5 m awayRef 198147RA10350
Slight
Citroen C4 crash on a C road in Wealden, 23 June 2013
8 m awayRef 2013471303181
Slight
Aeon Pulsar crash on a C road in Wealden, 13 May 1993
9 m awayRef 199347HA30291
Slight
Mazda 1400 crash on a C road in Wealden, 15 May 1994
13 m awayRef 199447HA40282
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 307
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 307)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2017471703076 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.