Unclassified road crash in Wealden BN27 on 1 April 2021 at 05:05 involving a Lexmoto Assault 125 motorcycle
A Lexmoto Assault 125 motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Wealden at 05:05 on Thursday 1 April 2021. The 19-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Apr 2021
- Thursday, 05:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lexmoto Assault 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.87073, longitude 0.24809, in the BN27 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hailsham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hailsham North West, Wealden, BN27 3DF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021471032186
- Council area
- Wealden
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 24 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 October 2009.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on a C road in Wealden, 14 October 2009
24 m awayRef 2009470907625
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Wealden, 28 March 1996
24 m awayRef 199647SA60204
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on a C road in Wealden, 12 February 1991
40 m awayRef 199147SA10063
Slight
Honda CG125 crash on a C road in Wealden, 14 August 2013
49 m awayRef 2013471304235
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 16 June 2018
49 m awayRef 2018471803291
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Wealden, 29 October 1982
55 m awayRef 198247SA20760
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lexmoto Assault 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Lexmoto Assault 125)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2021471032186 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 2021.