Unclassified road crash in Lewes BN7 on 21 January 1986 at 08:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Lewes at 08:30 on Tuesday 21 January 1986. A 56-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jan 1986
- Tuesday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.8728, longitude 0.00018, in the BN7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewes.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198647CA60051
- Council area
- Lewes
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 277
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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 1 June 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the A277 in Lewes, 1 June 1979
10 m awayRef 197947CA90487
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A277 in Lewes, 30 November 1991
10 m awayRef 199147LA10497
Slight
Car crash on the A277 in Lewes, 24 June 1983
10 m awayRef 198347CA30609
Serious
Yamaha YZF R125 crash on the A277 in Lewes, 31 August 2015
18 m awayRef 2015471505032
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the A277 in Lewes, 9 June 1997
22 m awayRef 199747SA70388
Slight
Car crash on the A277 in Lewes, 31 March 1988
28 m awayRef 198847LA80068
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 56, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 198647CA60051 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 1986.