Unclassified road crash in Lewes BN25 on 12 March 2006 at 02:15 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto and a BMW 5 Series were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Lewes at 02:15 on Sunday 12 March 2006. The 24-year-old male driver of the Fiat Punto was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Mar 2006
- Sunday, 02:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Punto and BMW 5 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78036, longitude 0.10761, 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
- 2006470602109
- 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
- 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
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 1987.
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 17 December 1987
20 m awayRef 198747LA70059
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Datsun Cherry crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 29 June 1990
20 m awayRef 199047LA00300
Slight
Hyundai Accent crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 2 March 2000
64 m awayRef 200047S004641
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Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 11 November 1997
121 m awayRef 199747SA70804
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 12 February 2002
128 m awayRef 200247S144624
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 15 November 2001
128 m awayRef 200147S144624
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Engine capacity
- 2,793 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
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 2006470602109 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 2006.