Serious unclassified road crash in Lewes BN7 on 15 January 2000 at 14:25 involving a Honda motorcycle
A Honda motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Lewes at 14:25 on Saturday 15 January 2000. The 18-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Jan 2000
- Saturday, 14:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.88204, longitude 0.00827, in the BN7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200047S004349
- Council area
- Lewes
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 April 1998.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 14 April 1998
30 m awayRef 199847S000109
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 1 November 1998
30 m awayRef 199847S001648
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 24 June 1980
32 m awayRef 198047CA00558
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 18 December 1981
32 m awayRef 198147CA11251
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 5 September 1986
32 m awayRef 198647CA60928
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 11 February 1982
32 m awayRef 198247CA20110
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda)
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 200047S004349 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 2000.