A259 crash in Lewes on 28 December 2006 at 12:05 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a car were involved in a crash on the A259 in Lewes at 12:05 on Thursday 28 December 2006. The 34-year-old male driver of the car and a 24-year-old female passenger in the car were 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
- 28 Dec 2006
- Thursday, 12:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.773, longitude 0.10218, in the BN25 postcode district and within the built-up area of Seaford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Seaford Central, Lewes, BN25 2AB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006470700084
- Council area
- Lewes
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 259
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 May 1992.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A259 in Lewes, 16 May 1992
At the same spotRef 199247LA20211
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 15 April 1988
At the same spotRef 198847LA80088
Serious
Car crash on the A259 in Lewes, 22 October 1980
At the same spotRef 198047CA01023
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Lewes, 28 June 1989
At the same spotRef 198947LA90243
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Lewes, 25 October 1989
At the same spotRef 198947LA90477
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Lewes, 2 March 1981
At the same spotRef 198147CA10197
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,959 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat 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 2006470700084 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.