C road crash in Lewes BN1 on 12 February 1991 at 09:00 involving a Ford Fiesta
A car, a Ford Fiesta and a Vauxhall Cavalier were involved in a crash on a C road in Lewes at 09:00 on Tuesday 12 February 1991. The 41-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a snow-covered single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Feb 1991
- Tuesday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Fiesta and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.89395, longitude -0.10855, in the BN1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199147HA10084
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Snow
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 12 March 1980.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Lewes, 12 March 1980
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Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 957 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,979 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
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 199147HA10084 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 1991.