Unclassified road crash in Lewes BN8 on 22 November 2006 at 09:43 involving a Volvo V40
A Volvo V40 and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Lewes at 09:43 on Wednesday 22 November 2006. The 67-year-old female driver of the Volvo V40 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Nov 2006
- Wednesday, 09:43
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volvo V40 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.94, longitude -0.02581, in the BN8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006470610012
- 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
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
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, 50 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 December 1989.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Lewes, 6 December 1989
50 m awayRef 198947LA90549
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 5 November 2025
74 m awayRef 2025471667003
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Lewes, 2 May 1982
81 m awayRef 198247CA20388
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Lewes, 3 October 1979
90 m awayRef 197947CA90991
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Lewes, 11 August 1985
90 m awayRef 198547CA50849
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Lewes, 3 July 1985
91 m awayRef 198547CA50646
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volvo V40
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,948 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 67, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo V40)
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 2006470610012 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.