C road crash in Lewes BN7 on 2 October 1981 at 15:05 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Lewes at 15:05 on Friday 2 October 1981. The 44-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Oct 1981
- Friday, 15:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.86248, longitude -0.00637, in the BN7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198147CA10930
- Council area
- Lewes
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 March 1994.
Slight
Suzuki crash on a C road in Lewes, 12 March 1994
14 m awayRef 199447SA40145
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A275 in Lewes, 29 April 1981
14 m awayRef 198147CA10356
Slight
BMW K 100 RT crash on a C road in Lewes, 26 December 1990
22 m awayRef 199047LA00642
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Lewes, 14 October 2004
78 m awayRef 200447K180323
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Lewes, 12 March 1991
81 m awayRef 199147LA10098
Serious
Minibus crash on the A275 in Lewes, 1 December 1980
92 m awayRef 198047CA01158
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198147CA10930 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.