Serious unclassified road crash in Lewes BN9 on 25 July 1994 at 20:02 involving a Vauxhall Chevette
A Vauxhall Chevette hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Lewes at 20:02 on Monday 25 July 1994. A 6-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Jul 1994
- Monday, 20:02
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Chevette
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78734, longitude 0.04789, in the BN9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newhaven.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199447SA40476
- Council area
- Lewes
- Police force
- Sussex
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Chevette
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,256 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 6, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Chevette)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 199447SA40476 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 1994.