A267 crash in Wealden on 20 February 2022 at 17:35 involving a Hyundai Tucson
A Hyundai Tucson and a Renault Trafic van were involved in a crash on the A267 in Wealden at 17:35 on Sunday 20 February 2022. A 23-year-old male pedestrian hit by the Hyundai Tucson was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Feb 2022
- Sunday, 17:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Hyundai Tucson and Renault Trafic
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.00025, longitude 0.21847, in the TN20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Five Ashes. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hadlow Down & Rotherfield, Wealden, TN20 6JH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022471145379
- 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
- 267
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Weather
- Raining with 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 June 2025.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A267 in Wealden, 19 June 2025
14 m awayRef 2025471605240
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A267 in Wealden, 18 September 1990
19 m awayRef 199047LA00461
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the A267 in Wealden, 11 May 1994
19 m awayRef 199447HA40270
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the A267 in Wealden, 3 October 2013
24 m awayRef 2013471305217
Serious
Vehicle crash on the A267 in Wealden, 22 September 1982
32 m awayRef 198247SA20643
Slight
Car crash on the A267 in Wealden, 29 May 1989
41 m awayRef 198947LA90173
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai Tucson
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Renault Trafic
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 23, hit by vehicle 1 (Hyundai Tucson)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2022471145379 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 2022.