B2109 crash in Lewes on 5 March 1981 at 15:20 involving a car
A vehicle and a car were involved in a crash on the B2109 in Lewes at 15:20 on Thursday 5 March 1981. The 26-year-old female driver of the car and a 1-year-old male passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Mar 1981
- Thursday, 15:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Other vehicle and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.7944, longitude 0.05558, in the BN9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newhaven.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198147CA10205
- Council area
- Lewes
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2109
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 July 2007.
Slight
Honda crash on the B2109 in Lewes, 4 July 2007
10 m awayRef 2007470705494
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B2109 in Lewes, 7 April 1995
10 m awayRef 199547SA50228
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A259 in Lewes, 12 May 2008
20 m awayRef 2008470803899
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B2109 in Lewes, 13 April 2025
20 m awayRef 2025471577567
Serious
Car crash on the B2109 in Lewes, 26 March 1985
30 m awayRef 198547CA50267
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B2109 in Lewes, 13 November 1980
30 m awayRef 198047CA01100
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 1, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 198147CA10205 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 1981.