Serious B2112 crash in Lewes on 4 October 1981 at 00:10 involving a car
A car crashed on the B2112 in Lewes at 00:10 on Sunday 4 October 1981. The 27-year-old male driver was seriously injured and a 21-year-old male passenger and a 20-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Oct 1981
- Sunday, 00:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.93915, longitude -0.10601, in the BN6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198147CA10907
- Council area
- Lewes
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2112
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 March 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the B2112 in Lewes, 13 March 1979
At the same spotRef 197947CA90207
Slight
Van crash on the B2112 in Lewes, 16 January 1987
10 m awayRef 198747HA70017
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B2112 in Lewes, 24 July 1983
14 m awayRef 198347CA30733
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the B2112 in Lewes, 21 November 1994
20 m awayRef 199447HA40731
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B2112 in Lewes, 12 September 1979
20 m awayRef 197947CA90893
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the B2112 in Lewes, 26 August 2025
30 m awayRef 2025471633324
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 198147CA10907 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.