Serious C road crash in Lewes on 22 December 1986 at 17:10 involving a car

A car crashed on a C road in Lewes at 17:10 on Monday 22 December 1986. The 31-year-old male driver was seriously injured.

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

Severity: Serious
Date: 22 Dec 1986; Monday, 17:10
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198647CA61412
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: Dry
Carriageway hazards: Other object in carriageway

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
North East
Travelling to
South West
Hit object in carriageway
Other object
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
31 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Serious
Male, aged 31, 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 198647CA61412 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.