A26 crash in Wealden on 1 August 2025 at 17:00 involving a Porsche Panamera
A Porsche Panamera and a Nissan Qashqai were involved in a crash on the A26 in Wealden at 17:00 on Friday 1 August 2025. A 29-year-old female passenger in the Nissan Qashqai, a 7-year-old female passenger in the Nissan Qashqai and the 29-year-old male driver of the Nissan Qashqai were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Aug 2025
- Friday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Porsche Panamera and Nissan Qashqai
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.04833, longitude 0.1481, in the TN6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Crowborough. It is one of the crashes that make up the Crowborough South West, Wealden, TN6 1LQ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025471623674
- 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
- 26
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 May 2010.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A26 in Wealden, 10 May 2010
2 m awayRef 2010471003072
Slight
Car crash on the A26 in Wealden, 27 November 1989
2 m awayRef 198947LA90532
Slight
Audi 80 crash on the A26 in Wealden, 16 December 1992
2 m awayRef 199247LA20532
Slight
Audi S4 crash on the A26 in Wealden, 28 January 2020
3 m awayRef 2020470925080
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A26 in Wealden, 23 August 2019
3 m awayRef 2019470871010
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A26 in Wealden, 29 October 2015
7 m awayRef 2015471506304
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Porsche Panamera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Nissan Qashqai
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,332 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Qashqai)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 7, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Qashqai)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Qashqai)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 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 2025471623674 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.