Unclassified road crash in Lewes BN7 on 17 January 1980 at 09:30 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Lewes at 09:30 on Thursday 17 January 1980. The 44-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jan 1980
- Thursday, 09:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.85884, longitude -0.02472, in the BN7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198047CA00055
- Council area
- Lewes
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 72 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 November 1996.
Slight
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Serious
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Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 25 November 2001
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Slight
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Slight
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Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 30 December 2020
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, 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 198047CA00055 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 1980.