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Unclassified road crash in Wealden TN7 on 31 December 2017 at 23:29 involving a car

A car crashed on an unclassified road in Wealden at 23:29 on Sunday 31 December 2017. The 23-year-old male driver and a 22-year-old female 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
31 Dec 2017
Sunday, 23:29
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
2
2 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.12494, longitude 0.12704, in the TN7 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Wealden

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
2017471800810
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
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, 320 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 5 October 2018.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    Position at junction
    Not at or within 20 metres of junction
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded and overturned
    Hit object in carriageway
    Kerb
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    First point of impact
    Front
    Left-hand drive
    No
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    23 years
    Driver home area deprivation
    10% least deprived

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

    Home area deprivation
    10% least deprived

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

    Car passenger
    Front seat passenger
    Home area deprivation
    30 to 40% 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 2017471800810 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.