C road crash in Lewes BN8 on 19 December 1996 at 08:10 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on a C road in Lewes at 08:10 on Thursday 19 December 1996. The 17-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 1996
- Thursday, 08:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.9154, longitude -0.0034, in the BN8 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199647SA60965
- 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
- Human crossing control by other authorised person
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 80 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 18 December 1995.
Serious
Renault Espace crash on a C road in Lewes, 18 December 1995
80 m awayRef 199547SA50870
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 16 May 1985
120 m awayRef 198547CA50453
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Lewes, 24 October 1979
140 m awayRef 197947CA91067
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Lewes, 6 December 1985
140 m awayRef 198547CA51335
Slight
Ford Transit crash on a C road in Lewes, 6 January 1995
150 m awayRef 199547SA50011
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Lewes, 20 October 1987
160 m awayRef 198747LA70014
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 199647SA60965 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.