C road crash in Lewes BN25 on 20 August 1993 at 23:30 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on a C road in Lewes at 23:30 on Friday 20 August 1993. A 14-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Aug 1993
- Friday, 23:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78262, longitude 0.12614, in the BN25 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199347SA30493
- Council area
- Lewes
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 March 1987.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Lewes, 25 March 1987
At the same spotRef 198747CA70262
Serious
Mazda 626 crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 12 March 2002
At the same spotRef 200247S148648
Serious
Austin Maestro crash on a C road in Lewes, 7 May 1992
At the same spotRef 199247LA20195
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 13 May 2025
2 m awayRef 2025471589617
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 9 January 2025
5 m awayRef 2025471539635
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Lewes, 18 December 1981
10 m awayRef 198147CA11250
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 199347SA30493 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 1993.