Unclassified road crash in Wealden BN27 on 16 June 2018 at 14:25 involving a Mini Cooper
A Mini Cooper and a Hyundai i30 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wealden at 14:25 on Saturday 16 June 2018. The 17-year-old female driver of the Mini Cooper was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jun 2018
- Saturday, 14:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mini Cooper and Hyundai i30
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.871, longitude 0.24753, in the BN27 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hailsham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hailsham North West, Wealden, BN27 3DF area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018471803291
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 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, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 February 1991.
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on a C road in Wealden, 12 February 1991
12 m awayRef 199147SA10063
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 12 August 1999
26 m awayRef 199947S003495
Serious
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 17 December 2018
31 m awayRef 2018471807011
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Wealden, 12 February 1996
41 m awayRef 199647SA60105
Serious
Bicycle crash on a C road in Wealden, 29 January 1983
41 m awayRef 198347SA30053
Slight
Lexmoto Assault 125 crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 1 April 2021
49 m awayRef 2021471032186
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Hyundai i30
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,582 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mini Cooper)
- 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 2018471803291 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.