Unclassified road crash in Wealden BN20 on 16 April 2018 at 08:15 involving a Hyundai Getz
A Hyundai Getz hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wealden at 08:15 on Monday 16 April 2018. A 12-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Apr 2018
- Monday, 08:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Hyundai Getz
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81152, longitude 0.24196, in the BN20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lower Willingdon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lower Willingdon, Wealden, BN20 9QG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018471802018
- 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
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Human crossing control by school crossing patrol
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 29 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 August 2002.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 24 August 2002
29 m awayRef 200247K154070
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 17 February 1987
29 m awayRef 198747SA70065
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 24 October 2023
31 m awayRef 2023471366826
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 10 June 2018
31 m awayRef 2018471803172
Serious
Vauxhall Combo crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 27 December 2022
31 m awayRef 2022471257600
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 28 June 1983
35 m awayRef 198347SA30387
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai Getz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,086 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Hyundai Getz)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2018471802018 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 2018.