A26 crash in Lewes on 6 December 2007 at 14:11 involving an Iveco-Ford lorry
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Dec 2007
- Thursday, 14:11
- Vehicles
- 2
- Iveco-Ford and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84184, longitude 0.04419, in the BN8 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007470710288
- 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
- 26
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 February 2004.
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the A26 in Lewes, 19 February 2004
14 m awayRef 200447K172093
Serious
Audi A3 crash on the A26 in Lewes, 22 November 2021
56 m awayRef 2021471113316
Slight
Citroen XM crash on the A26 in Lewes, 27 July 1997
82 m awayRef 199747SA70518
Slight
Audi A2 crash on the A26 in Lewes, 15 December 2019
86 m awayRef 2019470909712
Slight
Kawasaki crash on the A26 in Lewes, 21 June 1999
120 m awayRef 199947S003208
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A26 in Lewes, 2 June 1988
146 m awayRef 198847LA80129
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Iveco-Ford
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,861 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2007470710288 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.