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Serious A259 crash in Lewes on 19 December 1984 at 10:00 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A259 in Lewes at 10:00 on Wednesday 19 December 1984. A 79-year-old male pedestrian hit by the motorcycle was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Serious
Date
19 Dec 1984
Wednesday, 10:00
Vehicles
2
Motorcycle and car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.794, longitude -0.0144, in the BN10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Telscombe Cliffs.

Map of where the crash happened in Lewes

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198447CA41442
Council area
Lewes
Police force
Sussex

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
259
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Fine with high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 October 2018.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Hit object in carriageway
    Parked vehicle
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    31 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Parked
    Travelling from
    Parked
    Travelling to
    Parked
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    61 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 79, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)

    Pedestrian location
    Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

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 198447CA41442 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 1984.