A259 crash in Wealden on 6 July 2021 at 16:47 involving a Honda FSH125 motorcycle
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Jul 2021
- Tuesday, 16:47
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda FSH125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.8188, longitude 0.33975, in the BN24 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pevensey Bay, Wealden, BN24 6AA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021471063520
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 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, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 May 2019.
Serious
Suzuki GZ 125 crash on the A259 in Wealden, 25 May 2019
2 m awayRef 2019471902697
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A259 in Wealden, 5 March 1986
3 m awayRef 198647UA60094
Slight
Peugeot 308 crash on the A259 in Wealden, 4 December 2016
4 m awayRef 2016471607290
Fatal
Honda CBF 125 crash on the A259 in Wealden, 23 June 2024
9 m awayRef 2024471459128
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A259 in Wealden, 26 November 2015
10 m awayRef 2015471507004
Slight
Audi A1 crash on the A259 in Wealden, 31 July 2014
12 m awayRef 2014471404386
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda FSH125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 42, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda FSH125)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2021471063520 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.