C road crash in Lewes BN9 on 26 September 1997 at 17:08 involving a Rover 800 Series
A Rover 800 Series hit a pedestrian on a C road in Lewes at 17:08 on Friday 26 September 1997. A 3-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Sep 1997
- Friday, 17:08
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 800 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79556, longitude 0.04584, in the BN9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newhaven.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199747SA70667
- Council area
- Lewes
- Police force
- Sussex
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 July 2024.
Slight
Nissan X-Trail crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 20 July 2024
7 m awayRef 2024471470209
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 17 October 2025
8 m awayRef 2025471658639
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Lewes, 14 September 1987
10 m awayRef 198747CA70844
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Lewes, 2 April 1991
10 m awayRef 199147LA10124
Serious
Kia Stonic crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 30 June 2025
15 m awayRef 2025471609717
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Lewes, 30 April 1985
22 m awayRef 198547CA50397
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 800 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 3, hit by vehicle 1 (Rover 800 Series)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 199747SA70667 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 1997.