Unclassified road crash in Wealden TN22 on 19 December 2020 at 13:30 involving a Volkswagen Crafter van
A Volkswagen Crafter van and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wealden at 13:30 on Saturday 19 December 2020. The 41-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 2020
- Saturday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Crafter and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.01552, longitude 0.0038, in the TN22 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020471009692
- 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
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 165 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 September 1999.
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the A275 in Wealden, 9 September 1999
165 m awayRef 199947H003218
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A275 in Wealden, 4 January 1995
228 m awayRef 199547HA50008
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A275 in Wealden, 22 August 1996
228 m awayRef 199647HA60524
Slight
Car crash on the A275 in Wealden, 26 February 1982
228 m awayRef 198247SA20109
Slight
Seat Leon crash on the A275 in Wealden, 7 April 2014
235 m awayRef 2014471401845
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A275 in Wealden, 16 June 1983
252 m awayRef 198347SA30373
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Crafter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 41, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- 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 2020471009692 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 2020.