Serious A22 crash in Wealden on 17 February 2019 at 15:51 involving a Honda CBR600F motorcycle
A Honda CBR600F motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A22 in Wealden at 15:51 on Sunday 17 February 2019. The 22-year-old male rider of the Honda CBR600F motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Feb 2019
- Sunday, 15:51
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda CBR600F and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81108, longitude 0.27838, in the BN23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019471900938
- 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
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- 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
- 99%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 1%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 69 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 May 2021.
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A22 in Wealden, 13 May 2021
69 m awayRef 2021471044838
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A22 in Eastbourne, 7 October 2015
82 m awayRef 2015471505866
Slight
Volvo S40 crash on the A22 in Wealden, 2 December 2009
106 m awayRef 2009470909041
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A22 in Wealden, 13 May 2004
117 m awayRef 200447K174787
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A22 in Wealden, 26 November 2004
156 m awayRef 200447K181458
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A22 in Wealden, 11 June 2003
160 m awayRef 200347K163951
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda CBR600F
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 20 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: 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
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 22, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda CBR600F)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2019471900938 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 2019.