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Five Ash Down road accidents: crash map and statistics

Police recorded 154 road traffic collisions in Five Ash Down, Wealden, from 1979 to 2025, and 230 people were killed or injured in them. Of those collisions, none were fatal and 35 were serious.

No collisions were recorded in 2025, after 2 in 2024.

Collisions since 1979
154
2,239th of 2,851 towns, highest first
Casualties
230
1.49 per collision
Fatal collisions
0
No one killed
Serious collisions
35
42 seriously injured
Collisions in 2025
0
2 in 2024
Casualties in 2025
0
3 in 2024

Road collision statistics for Five Ash Down

Collisions by severity, 1979 to 2025

  • Fatal00%
  • Serious3523%
  • Slight11977%

What the data shows

  • Five Ash Down had 16 collisions from 2016 to 2025, 33% fewer than the 24 from 2006 to 2015.
  • 23% of collisions in Five Ash Down were fatal or serious, against 20% across Great Britain.
  • 20 children under 16 were killed or injured in Five Ash Down, 8.7% of the casualties whose age was recorded.
  • The road surface was wet, icy, snowy or flooded in 39% of collisions in Five Ash Down.

Where Five Ash Down ranks among 2,851 towns

Most collisions
2,239th
Most casualties
2,105th
Most fatal collisions
None
Most serious collisions
2,148th

Collisions by day of the week

  • Monday22 (14%)
  • Tuesday22 (14%)
  • Wednesday22 (14%)
  • Thursday23 (15%)
  • Friday27 (18%)
  • Saturday20 (13%)
  • Sunday18 (12%)

Light conditions

  • Daylight106 (69%)
  • Dark, no street lighting40 (26%)
  • Dark, street lights lit6 (3.9%)
  • Dark, lighting unknown1 (0.6%)
  • Dark, street lights unlit1 (0.6%)

Type of road

  • Single carriageway142 (92%)
  • Roundabout8 (5.2%)
  • Dual carriageway3 (1.9%)
  • Not recorded1 (0.6%)

Speed limit at the scene

  • 20 mph1 (0.6%)
  • 30 mph15 (9.7%)
  • 40 mph8 (5.2%)
  • 60 mph127 (82%)
  • 70 mph3 (1.9%)

Weather at the time

  • Fine, no high winds118 (77%)
  • Raining, no high winds24 (16%)
  • Fine with high winds2 (1.3%)
  • Raining with high winds2 (1.3%)
  • Fog or mist1 (0.6%)
  • Snowing, no high winds1 (0.6%)
  • Other4 (2.6%)
  • Not recorded2 (1.3%)

Who was hurt

  • Car occupant169 (73%)
  • Motorcyclist21 (9.1%)
  • Van occupant13 (5.7%)
  • Pedestrian10 (4.3%)
  • Cyclist8 (3.5%)
  • Goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes)4 (1.7%)
  • Minibus occupant3 (1.3%)
  • Bus or coach occupant2 (0.9%)

Source: Department for Transport, STATS19 road safety data

Five Ash Down road accidents by year

Collisions and casualties in Five Ash Down, 1979 to 2025

Collisions in Five Ash Down peaked at 11 in 1985; none were recorded in 2025.

  • Collisions
  • Collisions in 2025
  • Casualties

Source: Department for Transport, STATS19 road safety data

View as a table
YearCollisionsCasualties
202500
202423
202325
202223
202100
202011
201933
201800
201711
201657
201525
201400
201311
201222
201133
201056
200923
200811
200758
200634
200522
200444
200322
200246
200111
200047
199944
199811
199758
1996810
199557
199449
199344
199247
199123
199033
198944
198857
198756
198669
19851112
1984714
1983612
1982311
198149
198036
197936

Map of recent crashes in Five Ash Down

Map of the 24 most recent crashes in Five Ash Down

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  • 24 crashes
  • Serious
  • Slight

Recent road crashes in Five Ash Down

The 24 most recent collisions in Five Ash Down happened between 11 February 2011 and 17 August 2024.

Severity

Crashes by road in Five Ash Down

The A272 has the most collisions in Five Ash Down, 41 of 154 (27%), followed by the A26 (34).

Collisions in Five Ash Down on each road, 1979 to 2025
RankRoadCollisionsCasualtiesFatalSerious
1stA272415207
2ndA263460012
3rdA22142305

Council area for Five Ash Down

Five Ash Down is in Wealden, where police recorded 24,921 collisions from 1979 to 2025. Five Ash Down accounts for 0.6% of them.

Postcode district for Five Ash Down

All 154 collisions in Five Ash Down were in the TN22 postcode district.