Serious unclassified road crash in Lewes BN25 on 18 September 1986 at 11:35 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on an unclassified road in Lewes at 11:35 on Thursday 18 September 1986. The 36-year-old female cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Sep 1986
- Thursday, 11:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.77418, longitude 0.10505, in the BN25 postcode district and within the built-up area of Seaford.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198647CA60966
- 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
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- 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, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 September 1992.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 29 September 1992
20 m awayRef 199247LA20399
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Lewes, 16 November 2005
20 m awayRef 2005470509736
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 6 January 1981
28 m awayRef 198147CA10028
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 14 December 2015
28 m awayRef 2015471507417
Slight
BMW Z4 crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 23 March 2021
29 m awayRef 2021471030802
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 13 September 1984
30 m awayRef 198447CA41006
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousFemale, aged 36, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 198647CA60966 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.