Serious unclassified road crash in Lewes BN7 on 17 December 1981 at 15:43 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Lewes at 15:43 on Thursday 17 December 1981. A 10-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Dec 1981
- Thursday, 15:43
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.88223, longitude 0.01651, in the BN7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewes.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198147CA11248
- Council area
- Lewes
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 February 2000.
Slight
Mazda MX-5 crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 28 February 2000
14 m awayRef 200047S004594
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 2 October 1980
20 m awayRef 198047CA00945
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 25 February 1981
30 m awayRef 198147CA10169
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 11 October 2004
30 m awayRef 200447K179513
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 16 February 2000
32 m awayRef 200047S004536
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 1 May 1990
50 m awayRef 199047LA00210
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 198147CA11248 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.