C road crash in Lewes BN7 on 24 July 1998 at 17:49 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on a C road in Lewes at 17:49 on Friday 24 July 1998. The 22-year-old female rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jul 1998
- Friday, 17:49
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.83847, longitude 0.00908, in the BN7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199847S000860
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 22, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 199847S000860 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.