A271 crash in Wealden on 12 November 2017 at 07:00 involving a Vauxhall Adam
A car and a Vauxhall Adam were involved in a crash on the A271 in Wealden at 07:00 on Sunday 12 November 2017. The 21-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Adam was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Nov 2017
- Sunday, 07:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Vauxhall Adam
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.88947, longitude 0.32311, in the BN27 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017471706397
- 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
- 271
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 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, 9 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 May 2010.
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the A271 in Wealden, 11 May 2010
9 m awayRef 2010471003040
Serious
Car crash on the A271 in Wealden, 25 November 1980
11 m awayRef 198047SA00548
Serious
Car crash on the A271 in Wealden, 5 July 1981
11 m awayRef 198147SA10270
Slight
Car crash on the A271 in Wealden, 7 May 1984
11 m awayRef 198447SA40242
Slight
Honda Civic crash on a C road in Wealden, 29 June 1991
28 m awayRef 199147SA10241
Slight
Volvo XC60 crash on the A271 in Wealden, 29 June 2016
30 m awayRef 2016471603902
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Adam
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Adam)
- 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 2017471706397 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.