Unclassified road crash in Wealden BN27 on 30 June 2025 at 13:10 involving an MGB R8 motorcycle
An MGB R8 motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Wealden at 13:10 on Monday 30 June 2025. The 19-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jun 2025
- Monday, 13:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- MGB R8
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.87438, longitude 0.25186, 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, Wealden, BN27 1HE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wealden
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025471609563
- 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
- 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, 74 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 June 2012.
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on an unclassified road in Wealden, 21 June 2012
74 m awayRef 2012471203246
Slight
Volvo 245 crash on a C road in Wealden, 27 February 1995
81 m awayRef 199547SA50136
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Wealden, 7 July 1983
89 m awayRef 198347SA30410
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Wealden, 3 January 1986
92 m awayRef 198647UA60004
Slight
Morris Marina crash on a C road in Wealden, 10 April 1992
92 m awayRef 199247SA20149
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Wealden, 30 July 1982
96 m awayRef 198247SA20499
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: MGB R8
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (MGB R8)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2025471609563 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 2025.