A272 crash in Lewes on 2 April 1987 at 15:00 involving a lorry
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Apr 1987
- Thursday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.97393, longitude 0.01863, in the BN8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newick.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198747CA70266
- Council area
- Lewes
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 272
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 March 2000.
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A272 in Lewes, 1 March 2000
22 m awayRef 200047S004614
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A272 in Lewes, 5 June 1997
28 m awayRef 199747SA70372
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A272 in Lewes, 22 December 1998
28 m awayRef 199847S002067
Serious
Car crash on the A272 in Lewes, 17 September 1979
28 m awayRef 197947CA90933
Slight
Gilera Stalker crash on the A272 in Lewes, 1 May 2002
32 m awayRef 200247K149880
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A272 in Lewes, 23 August 2024
32 m awayRef 2024471483148
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 46, 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 198747CA70266 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 1987.