A26 crash in Lewes on 20 October 1986 at 07:15 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A26 in Lewes at 07:15 on Monday 20 October 1986. The 19-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Oct 1986
- Monday, 07:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.87936, longitude 0.02136, in the BN7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198647CA61167
- Council area
- Lewes
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 26
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the A26 in Lewes, 17 December 1987
At the same spotRef 198747LA70057
Slight
Van crash on the A26 in Lewes, 28 May 1981
At the same spotRef 198147CA10463
Slight
Lorry crash on the A26 in Lewes, 7 June 2006
At the same spotRef 2006470604595
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A26 in Lewes, 10 June 2020
4 m awayRef 2020470956616
Slight
Car crash on the A26 in Lewes, 6 February 1984
10 m awayRef 198447CA40140
Slight
Lorry crash on the A26 in Lewes, 19 February 1983
10 m awayRef 198347CA30168
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 198647CA61167 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.