A26 crash in Lewes on 19 July 1985 at 12:17 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A26 in Lewes at 12:17 on Friday 19 July 1985. A 55-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 and a 45-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Jul 1985
- Friday, 12:17
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84967, longitude 0.05289, in the BN8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198547CA50742
- Council area
- Lewes
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 26
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 December 2006.
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A26 in Lewes, 18 December 2006
10 m awayRef 2006470611152
Slight
Leyland crash on the A26 in Lewes, 29 August 1996
61 m awayRef 199647SA60610
Slight
Rover 25 crash on the A26 in Lewes, 27 June 2001
61 m awayRef 200147S138728
Slight
Renault 25 crash on the A26 in Lewes, 6 February 1995
70 m awayRef 199547SA50082
Serious
Dacia Duster crash on the A26 in Lewes, 2 November 2023
84 m awayRef 2023471370818
Slight
Lorry crash on the A26 in Lewes, 13 March 1985
114 m awayRef 198547CA50216
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 55 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 198547CA50742 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.