C road crash in Lewes on 20 December 1986 at 00:50 involving a car

A car crashed on a C road in Lewes at 00:50 on Saturday 20 December 1986. The 21-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 20 Dec 1986; Saturday, 00:50
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198647CA61378
Council area: Lewes
Police force: Sussex

Road and location details

First road class: C
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: Dark, no street lighting
Weather: Fine, no high winds
Road surface: Frost or ice

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
North West
Travelling to
South East
Skidding and overturning
Skidded
Leaving the carriageway
Nearside
Hit object off carriageway
Other permanent object
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
21 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Male, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 198647CA61378 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.