Unclassified road crash in Lewes BN25 on 13 January 2000 at 16:10 involving an MCW bus
An MCW bus crashed on an unclassified road in Lewes at 16:10 on Thursday 13 January 2000. A 91-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Jan 2000
- Thursday, 16:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- MCW
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.77181, longitude 0.09815, in the BN25 postcode district and within the built-up area of Seaford.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200047S004365
- Council area
- Lewes
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: MCW
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,045 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 91, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (MCW)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated 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 200047S004365 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.