C road crash in Lewes BN8 on 12 September 1979 at 08:00 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Lewes at 08:00 on Wednesday 12 September 1979. The 35-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Sep 1979
- Wednesday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.91129, longitude -0.005, in the BN8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197947CA90882
- Council area
- Lewes
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 54 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 October 2000.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A275 in Lewes, 31 October 2000
54 m awayRef 200047S128503
Slight
Car crash on the A275 in Lewes, 13 May 1981
72 m awayRef 198147CA10407
Slight
Mazda 121 crash on the A275 in Lewes, 23 November 2003
81 m awayRef 200347K169222
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A275 in Lewes, 6 July 2003
82 m awayRef 200347K164412
Slight
Lorry crash on the A275 in Lewes, 4 June 1979
85 m awayRef 197947CA90495
Serious
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A275 in Lewes, 8 April 1994
85 m awayRef 199447SA40190
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 197947CA90882 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lewes road accident statistics for 1979.