B2109 crash in Lewes on 27 February 1985 at 18:55 involving a car
A car hit two pedestrians on the B2109 in Lewes at 18:55 on Wednesday 27 February 1985. A 15-year-old female pedestrian and a 15-year-old female pedestrian were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Feb 1985
- Wednesday, 18:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.80176, longitude 0.05675, in the BN9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newhaven.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198547CA50159
- Council area
- Lewes
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2109
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 November 1995.
Slight
Audi 80 crash on the B2238 in Lewes, 21 November 1995
At the same spotRef 199547SA50801
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B2238 in Lewes, 3 June 1993
10 m awayRef 199347SA30320
Slight
Citroen Relay crash on the B2109 in Lewes, 2 August 2021
11 m awayRef 2021471073126
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B2109 in Lewes, 23 December 2019
13 m awayRef 2019470913305
Serious
Car crash on the B2109 in Lewes, 14 January 1983
14 m awayRef 198347CA30044
Slight
Car crash on the B2109 in Lewes, 26 October 1984
14 m awayRef 198447CA41198
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 198547CA50159 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 1985.