B2026 crash in Wealden on 22 September 2022 at 19:35 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta hit a pedestrian on the B2026 in Wealden at 19:35 on Thursday 22 September 2022. The 43-year-old female driver and a 51-year-old female pedestrian were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Sep 2022
- Thursday, 19:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.08132, longitude 0.10625, in the TN7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022471222478
- Council area
- Wealden
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2026
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 September 1997.
Slight
Scania crash on the B2026 in Wealden, 9 September 1997
3 m awayRef 199747HA70602
Slight
Polestar 2 crash on the B2026 in Wealden, 5 February 2022
17 m awayRef 2022471140473
Slight
Taxi crash on the B2026 in Wealden, 15 July 1981
90 m awayRef 198147RA10237
Serious
Citroen BX crash on the B2026 in Wealden, 23 September 1990
140 m awayRef 199047LA00452
Slight
Car crash on the B2026 in Wealden, 13 June 1979
140 m awayRef 197947RA90188
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B2026 in Wealden, 23 April 2007
206 m awayRef 2007470703374
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 51, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
- 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 2022471222478 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.