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Serious A277 crash in Lewes on 16 September 1983 at 12:50 involving a lorry

A lorry hit a pedestrian on the A277 in Lewes at 12:50 on Friday 16 September 1983. A 20-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit.

Severity
Serious
Date
16 Sep 1983
Friday, 12:50
Vehicles
1
Lorry
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.87359, longitude 0.01201, 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
198347CA30966
Council area
Lewes
Police force
Sussex

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
277
Road type
One way street or slip road
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
Wet or damp
Special conditions at the site
Roadworks
Carriageway hazards
Roadworks

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 August 2002.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Lorry

    Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    Hit object in carriageway
    Kerb
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    18 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 20, hit by vehicle 1 (Lorry)

    Pedestrian location
    On footway or verge
    Pedestrian movement
    Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic

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 198347CA30966 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.