Unclassified road crash in Wealden TN22 on 5 October 2018 at 20:30 involving a Fiat Bravo
A Fiat Bravo and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wealden at 20:30 on Friday 5 October 2018. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Oct 2018
- Friday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Bravo and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.97381, longitude 0.09768, in the TN22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Uckfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Uckfield East, Wealden, TN22 1PX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018471805577
- 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
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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, street lights lit
- 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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 October 1996.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Wealden, 19 October 1996
8 m awayRef 199647HA60653
Serious
Fiat 500 crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 12 July 2015
14 m awayRef 2015471503978
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on a C road in Wealden, 26 August 2011
14 m awayRef 2011471105284
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Wealden, 31 March 1993
37 m awayRef 199347HA30191
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on a C road in Wealden, 31 July 1997
37 m awayRef 199747HA70517
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Wealden, 7 January 1989
43 m awayRef 198947HA90012
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Bravo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,368 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
- 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 2018471805577 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.