B2112 crash in Lewes on 4 December 1998 at 20:07 involving an Alfa Romeo 33
An Alfa Romeo 33 crashed on the B2112 in Lewes at 20:07 on Friday 4 December 1998. The 19-year-old male driver and an 18-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Dec 1998
- Friday, 20:07
- Vehicles
- 1
- Alfa Romeo 33
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.93717, longitude -0.10651, in the BN6 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199847H001983
- Council area
- Lewes
- Police force
- Sussex
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2112
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 January 1990.
Slight
Car crash on the B2112 in Lewes, 5 January 1990
14 m awayRef 199047HA00003
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B2112 in Lewes, 26 October 1996
50 m awayRef 199647HA60675
Serious
Ford KA crash on the B2112 in Lewes, 16 September 2019
51 m awayRef 2019470878041
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the B2112 in Lewes, 21 December 1991
60 m awayRef 199147HA10565
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the B2112 in Lewes, 23 April 1996
60 m awayRef 199647HA60251
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B2112 in Lewes, 20 March 1991
60 m awayRef 199147HA10126
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Alfa Romeo 33
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,490 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Alfa Romeo 33)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Alfa Romeo 33)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 199847H001983 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 1998.