A259 crash in Wealden on 30 November 2018 at 07:50 involving a Mazda MX-5
A Mazda MX-5 and a Ford Transit Custom van were involved in a crash on the A259 in Wealden at 07:50 on Friday 30 November 2018. The 33-year-old male driver of the Mazda MX-5 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Nov 2018
- Friday, 07:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mazda MX-5 and Ford Transit Custom
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84718, longitude 0.37702, in the TN33 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Herstmonceux & Pevensey Levels, Wealden, TN33 9HH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018471806606
- 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
- 259
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 2095
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, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 21 October 2009.
Serious
Fiat Scudo crash on the A259 in Rother, 21 October 2009
2 m awayRef 2009470907824
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A259 in Wealden, 10 March 2009
2 m awayRef 2009470901765
Fatal
Ford Fiesta crash on the A259 in Wealden, 11 October 2010
2 m awayRef 2010471006813
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A259 in Wealden, 2 June 2017
3 m awayRef 2017471703056
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A259 in Wealden, 28 May 2019
5 m awayRef 2019470842626
Serious
Car crash on the A259 in Wealden, 2 December 1982
8 m awayRef 198247TA20628
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mazda MX-5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,840 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit Custom
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda MX-5)
- 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 2018471806606 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.