C road crash in Lewes BN7 on 8 July 1995 at 14:30 involving an Austin Morris Mini
An Austin Morris Mini crashed on a C road in Lewes at 14:30 on Saturday 8 July 1995. A 19-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Jul 1995
- Saturday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Austin Morris Mini
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.91646, longitude -0.06112, in the BN7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199547SA50448
- Council area
- Lewes
- Police force
- Sussex
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Austin Morris Mini
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Austin Morris Mini)
- 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 199547SA50448 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.