Serious C road crash in Lewes BN8 on 28 September 1981 at 14:50 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on a C road in Lewes at 14:50 on Monday 28 September 1981. The 37-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Sep 1981
- Monday, 14:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.87141, longitude 0.06437, in the BN8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198147CA10890
- Council area
- Lewes
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 August 1980.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Lewes, 14 August 1980
14 m awayRef 198047CA00768
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Lewes, 7 June 1985
149 m awayRef 198547CA50541
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Lewes, 21 August 1990
246 m awayRef 199047LA00396
Serious
Urban DZ 125 crash on a C road in Lewes, 10 September 2007
260 m awayRef 2007470707534
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 6 March 2000
302 m awayRef 200047S004653
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Lewes, 26 June 1981
311 m awayRef 198147CA10563
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 37, 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 198147CA10890 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.