A259 crash in Wealden on 22 December 2018 at 19:20 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Citroen C1 were involved in a crash on the A259 in Wealden at 19:20 on Saturday 22 December 2018. The 44-year-old male driver of the BMW 3 Series and the 52-year-old female driver of the Citroen C1 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2018
- Saturday, 19:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Citroen C1
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81761, longitude 0.34401, in the BN24 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pevensey Bay, Wealden, BN24 6AA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018471807175
- Council area
- Wealden
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 April 1983.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A259 in Wealden, 25 April 1983
6 m awayRef 198347SA30219
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A259 in Wealden, 30 November 2016
12 m awayRef 2016471607255
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A259 in Wealden, 1 July 1979
13 m awayRef 197947SA90297
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A259 in Wealden, 2 July 1990
24 m awayRef 199047SA00322
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Wealden, 23 December 1997
33 m awayRef 199747SA70916
Serious
Car crash on the A259 in Wealden, 18 December 1982
35 m awayRef 198247SA20914
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Citroen C1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen C1)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most 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 2018471807175 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.