Unclassified road crash in Lewes BN25 on 12 January 1983 at 14:00 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Lewes at 14:00 on Wednesday 12 January 1983. The 55-year-old female cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jan 1983
- Wednesday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.76896, longitude 0.10041, in the BN25 postcode district and within the built-up area of Seaford.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198347CA30040
- 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
- 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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 March 1989.
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 55 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 55, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 198347CA30040 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 1983.