Unclassified road crash in Lewes on 12 December 1986 at 19:45 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Lewes at 19:45 on Friday 12 December 1986. A 14-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 12 Dec 1986; Friday, 19:45
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198647CA61362
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: Not at junction or within 20 metres

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities: No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Fine, no high winds
Road surface: Dry

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
South West
Travelling to
North East
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
50 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Female, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
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 198647CA61362 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.