Serious B2112 crash in Lewes on 12 September 1979 at 19:00 involving a motorcycle
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Sep 1979
- Wednesday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.93932, longitude -0.106, in the BN6 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197947CA90893
- Council area
- Lewes
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2112
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 March 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the B2112 in Lewes, 13 March 1979
20 m awayRef 197947CA90207
Serious
Car crash on the B2112 in Lewes, 4 October 1981
20 m awayRef 198147CA10907
Slight
Van crash on the B2112 in Lewes, 16 January 1987
30 m awayRef 198747HA70017
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B2112 in Lewes, 24 July 1983
32 m awayRef 198347CA30733
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the B2112 in Lewes, 21 November 1994
40 m awayRef 199447HA40731
Slight
Car crash on the B2112 in Lewes, 1 April 1980
41 m awayRef 198047CA00288
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 22, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 197947CA90893 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.