A27 crash in Lewes on 18 March 2008 at 08:00 involving a Mini Cooper
A Mini Cooper and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A27 in Lewes at 08:00 on Tuesday 18 March 2008. The 21-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta and a 20-year-old female passenger in the Ford Fiesta were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Mar 2008
- Tuesday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mini Cooper and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.85283, longitude 0.06385, in the BN8 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ouse Valley & Ringmer, Lewes, BN8 6AD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008470802450
- 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
- 27
- 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
- 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, 39 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 November 2015.
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A27 in Lewes, 30 November 2015
39 m awayRef 2015471507245
Slight
Lorry crash on the A27 in Lewes, 9 July 1988
67 m awayRef 198847LA80158
Slight
Renault 9 crash on the A27 in Lewes, 30 April 1994
70 m awayRef 199447SA40250
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A27 in Lewes, 23 December 2015
88 m awayRef 2015471507636
Serious
Car crash on the A27 in Lewes, 15 June 1979
92 m awayRef 197947CA90533
Slight
Van crash on the A27 in Lewes, 19 April 1983
98 m awayRef 198347CA30375
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mini Cooper
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
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
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
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 2008470802450 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 2008.