A27 crash in Lewes on 17 December 2000 at 17:12 involving a Nissan Almera
A vehicle, a Nissan Almera and a Renault 19 were involved in a crash on the A27 in Lewes at 17:12 on Sunday 17 December 2000. The 28-year-old female driver of the Nissan Almera was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 2000
- Sunday, 17:12
- Vehicles
- 3
- Nissan Almera and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.86574, longitude -0.05425, 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
- 200047S131147
- Council area
- Lewes
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 27
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 April 2010.
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A27 in Lewes, 6 April 2010
10 m awayRef 2010471002195
Slight
Car crash on the A27 in Lewes, 2 January 2025
18 m awayRef 2025471537884
Slight
Ford Kuga crash on the A27 in Lewes, 30 December 2017
19 m awayRef 2017471707410
Slight
Isuzu Trucks Forward crash on the A27 in Lewes, 7 September 2018
27 m awayRef 2018471804981
Serious
Reliant Robin crash on the A27 in Lewes, 9 March 1990
32 m awayRef 199047LA00123
Serious
Car crash on the A27 in Lewes, 17 April 1985
63 m awayRef 198547CA50348
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1
Vehicle type not recorded
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Almera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 3: Renault 19
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,794 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Almera)
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 200047S131147 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.