A259 crash in Lewes on 8 September 1980 at 09:45 involving a bus or coach
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Sep 1980
- Monday, 09:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79154, longitude -0.00244, in the BN10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Peacehaven.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198047CA00846
- Council area
- Lewes
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 259
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 December 1985.
Serious
Bus crash on the A259 in Lewes, 6 December 1985
10 m awayRef 198547CA51348
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the A259 in Lewes, 23 December 2012
10 m awayRef 2012471206892
Slight
Scania crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 1 October 2009
10 m awayRef 2009470907247
Serious
Bus crash on the A259 in Lewes, 25 February 1987
10 m awayRef 198747CA70199
Serious
Bus crash on the A259 in Lewes, 22 June 1979
10 m awayRef 197947CA90577
Slight
Rover 75 crash on the A259 in Lewes, 18 May 2013
13 m awayRef 2013471302475
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Lane or location
- On lay-by or hard shoulder
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 56, hit by vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 198047CA00846 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.