A275 crash in Lewes on 12 December 1986 at 15:00 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A275 in Lewes at 15:00 on Friday 12 December 1986. A 4-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 12 Dec 1986; Friday, 15:00
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198647CA61347
Council area: Lewes
Police force: Sussex

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 275
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: Fine, no high winds
Road surface: Dry

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
Travelling from
South
Travelling to
North
First point of impact
Nearside
Driver sex
Female
Driver age
26 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Male, aged 4, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
Pedestrian movement
Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle

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 198647CA61347 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.