Unclassified road crash in Lewes BN7 on 13 May 1998 at 16:46 involving a Honda Prelude
Two Honda Preludes were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Lewes at 16:46 on Wednesday 13 May 1998. The 42-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 May 1998
- Wednesday, 16:46
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Prelude and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.87394, longitude 0.01217, in the BN7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewes.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199847S000293
- Council area
- Lewes
- Police force
- Sussex
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 December 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the A277 in Lewes, 3 December 1982
28 m awayRef 198247CA21201
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 13 December 2001
36 m awayRef 200147S145653
Serious
Lorry crash on the A277 in Lewes, 16 September 1983
41 m awayRef 198347CA30966
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A277 in Lewes, 18 August 2002
41 m awayRef 200247K155473
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A277 in Lewes, 20 July 2021
48 m awayRef 2021471068223
Serious
Honda CR-V crash on the A277 in Lewes, 20 December 2025
49 m awayRef 2025471685961
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Prelude
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 2,300 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Honda Prelude
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,829 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Honda Prelude)
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 199847S000293 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.