Serious A259 crash in Lewes on 2 June 1981 at 19:15 involving a car
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Jun 1981
- Tuesday, 19:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79291, longitude -0.00862, in the BN10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Peacehaven.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198147CA10495
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 9 January 1990.
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A259 in Lewes, 9 January 1990
At the same spotRef 199047LA00015
Slight
Vauxhall Belmont crash on the A259 in Lewes, 7 May 1994
At the same spotRef 199447SA40267
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Lewes, 16 March 1989
At the same spotRef 198947LA90054
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A259 in Lewes, 1 December 1996
At the same spotRef 199647SA60923
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A259 in Lewes, 19 September 1991
At the same spotRef 199147LA10378
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on the A259 in Lewes, 5 December 2020
4 m awayRef 2020471004618
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 52, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 198147CA10495 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.