A277 crash in Lewes on 24 June 1983 at 23:05 involving a car
A car and a motor scooter were involved in a crash on the A277 in Lewes at 23:05 on Friday 24 June 1983. The 17-year-old male rider of the motor scooter was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jun 1983
- Friday, 23:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motor scooter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.87289, longitude 0.00019, in the BN7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewes.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198347CA30609
- Council area
- Lewes
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 277
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 November 1991.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A277 in Lewes, 30 November 1991
At the same spotRef 199147LA10497
Slight
Car crash on the A277 in Lewes, 1 June 1979
At the same spotRef 197947CA90487
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 21 January 1986
10 m awayRef 198647CA60051
Serious
Yamaha YZF R125 crash on the A277 in Lewes, 31 August 2015
13 m awayRef 2015471505032
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the A277 in Lewes, 9 June 1997
14 m awayRef 199747SA70388
Slight
Car crash on the A277 in Lewes, 31 March 1988
22 m awayRef 198847LA80068
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
Vehicle 2: Motor scooter
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motor scooter rider or passenger, on vehicle 2 (Motor scooter)
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 198347CA30609 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.