A259 crash in Lewes on 30 December 1983 at 15:00 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A259 in Lewes at 15:00 on Friday 30 December 1983. The 24-year-old female rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Dec 1983
- Friday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79516, longitude 0.04838, in the BN9 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198347CA31388
- Council area
- Lewes
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 259
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- 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, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 September 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Lewes, 2 September 1984
At the same spotRef 198447CA40965
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A259 in Lewes, 25 August 1987
At the same spotRef 198747CA70767
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Lewes, 25 July 1983
At the same spotRef 198347CA30742
Slight
Datsun Cherry crash on the A259 in Lewes, 2 April 1991
At the same spotRef 199147LA10140
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Lewes, 12 July 1981
At the same spotRef 198147CA10617
Slight
Volkswagen Touran crash on the A259 in Lewes, 11 October 2023
3 m awayRef 2023471362531
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 24, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 198347CA31388 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.