Serious A272 crash in Lewes on 23 April 1995 at 14:20 involving a Peugeot 505
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Apr 1995
- Sunday, 14:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 505
- Casualties
- 5
- 1 seriously injured, 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.97226, longitude -0.04156, in the BN8 postcode district and within the built-up area of North Chailey.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199547SA50262
- Council area
- Lewes
- Police force
- Sussex
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 272
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 April 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A272 in Lewes, 11 April 1983
At the same spotRef 198347CA30353
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A272 in Lewes, 6 April 2017
9 m awayRef 2017471701919
Serious
BMW 7 Series crash on the A272 in Lewes, 20 September 2011
10 m awayRef 2011471105883
Slight
Car crash on the A272 in Lewes, 22 August 1982
14 m awayRef 198247CA20766
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A272 in Lewes, 25 September 1996
14 m awayRef 199647SA60683
Serious
Car crash on the A272 in Lewes, 26 March 2011
20 m awayRef 2011471101930
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 505
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,971 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (5)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 505)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 505)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 9, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 505)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 3, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 505)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 5: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 7, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 505)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 199547SA50262 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 1995.