A267 crash in Wealden on 5 August 2017 at 17:08 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio and a Chevrolet Matiz were involved in a crash on the A267 in Wealden at 17:08 on Saturday 5 August 2017. A 65-year-old female passenger in the Chevrolet Matiz and a 21-year-old female passenger in the Renault Clio were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Aug 2017
- Saturday, 17:08
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Clio and Chevrolet Matiz
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.03451, longitude 0.23876, in the TN6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017471704397
- 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
- 267
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- B
- Second road number
- 2101
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no 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, 7 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 September 1997.
Serious
Suzuki crash on the A267 in Wealden, 17 September 1997
7 m awayRef 199747HA70639
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A267 in Wealden, 8 November 1997
11 m awayRef 199747HA70775
Fatal
Honda CBR900RR crash on the A267 in Wealden, 15 August 2000
14 m awayRef 200047S125690
Slight
Car crash on the A267 in Wealden, 29 November 1982
19 m awayRef 198247SA20841
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A267 in Wealden, 5 January 1997
21 m awayRef 199747HA70005
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the B2101 in Wealden, 22 September 2024
23 m awayRef 2024471494483
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Chevrolet Matiz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Chevrolet Matiz)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- 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 2017471704397 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.