Unclassified road crash in Lewes BN7 on 13 August 2007 at 16:15 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Lewes at 16:15 on Monday 13 August 2007. A 12-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry road with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Aug 2007
- Monday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.87944, longitude 0.00248, in the BN7 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lewes Priory, Lewes, BN7 1PN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007470706759
- Council area
- Lewes
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- 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
- 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, 102 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 December 2007.
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Optare Metrorider crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 11 December 2007
102 m awayRef 2007470710391
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 5 June 1986
110 m awayRef 198647CA60527
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 10 November 1980
127 m awayRef 198047CA01077
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Suzuki crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 18 September 1999
139 m awayRef 199947S003676
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Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 17 January 2005
158 m awayRef 2005470500750
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Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 21 March 1983
162 m awayRef 198347CA30291
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
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 2007470706759 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 2007.