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A259 crash in Lewes on 17 March 1996 at 13:45 involving a Kawasaki motorcycle

A Kawasaki motorcycle crashed on the A259 in Lewes at 13:45 on Sunday 17 March 1996. The 41-year-old female rider was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
17 Mar 1996
Sunday, 13:45
Vehicles
1
Kawasaki
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79356, longitude 0.04703, in the BN9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newhaven.

Map of where the crash happened in Lewes

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199647SA60174
Council area
Lewes
Police force
Sussex
Highway authority
East Sussex

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
259
Road type
One way street or slip road
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Auto traffic signal
Second road class
A
Second road number
259

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)

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 12 February 1991.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Kawasaki

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    West
    Hit object in carriageway
    Bollard or refuge
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    41 years
    Engine capacity
    174 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    16 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Slight

    Female, aged 41, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki)

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 199647SA60174 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 1996.