A22 crash in Wealden on 8 October 2018 at 09:53 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Peugeot Partner van were involved in a crash on the A22 in Wealden at 09:53 on Monday 8 October 2018. The 41-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Oct 2018
- Monday, 09:53
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Peugeot Partner
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.01392, longitude 0.07183, in the TN22 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Maresfield, Wealden, TN22 3EP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018471805630
- Council area
- Wealden
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 22
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 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, 18 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 March 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the A22 in Wealden, 26 March 1980
18 m awayRef 198047RA00100
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A22 in Wealden, 6 January 2001
30 m awayRef 200147S132722
Serious
Nissan Serena crash on the A22 in Wealden, 18 May 1999
34 m awayRef 199947H002719
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the A22 in Wealden, 20 June 1998
34 m awayRef 199847H000587
Slight
Bedford crash on the A22 in Wealden, 11 April 2000
34 m awayRef 200047S004906
Slight
Ford Transit Custom crash on the A22 in Wealden, 31 March 2021
52 m awayRef 2021471032644
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Peugeot Partner
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2018471805630 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.