Unclassified road crash in Wealden TN3 on 12 May 2018 at 12:30 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A car and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wealden at 12:30 on Saturday 12 May 2018. The 28-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 May 2018
- Saturday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.1224, longitude 0.32619, in the TN3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018471802612
- 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
- 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
- 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 June 2003.
Slight
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in Tunbridge Wells, 14 June 2003
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Slight
Ford Granada crash on an unclassified road in Tunbridge Wells, 20 December 1991
23 m awayRef 199146AC56981
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Tunbridge Wells, 2 February 1991
52 m awayRef 199146AC30981
Slight
Skoda Superb crash on an unclassified road in Tunbridge Wells, 16 December 2014
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Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Tunbridge Wells, 18 June 2014
179 m awayRef 2014460243262
Serious
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 25 November 2024
262 m awayRef 2024471521284
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
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
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2018471802612 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.