C road crash in Lewes BN25 on 20 June 2008 at 14:22 involving a Citroen C1
A Citroen C1 and a Jaguar XJ Series were involved in a crash on a C road in Lewes at 14:22 on Friday 20 June 2008. The 29-year-old female driver of the Citroen C1, a 74-year-old male passenger in the Jaguar XJ Series and a 66-year-old female passenger in the Jaguar XJ Series were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jun 2008
- Friday, 14:22
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen C1 and Jaguar XJ Series
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.77271, longitude 0.12273, in the BN25 postcode district and within the built-up area of Seaford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Seaford East, Lewes, BN25 4EZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008470804752
- Council area
- Lewes
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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, 34 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 October 2016.
Slight
Skoda Superb crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 2 October 2016
34 m awayRef 2016471605955
Serious
Mazda MX-5 crash on a C road in Lewes, 1 June 2013
65 m awayRef 2013471302752
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Lewes, 23 August 1985
81 m awayRef 198547CA50885
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Lewes, 28 February 1997
82 m awayRef 199747SA70165
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Lewes, 17 March 1986
86 m awayRef 198647CA60222
Slight
Scania crash on the A259 in Lewes, 29 August 2007
91 m awayRef 2007470707228
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Jaguar XJ Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,239 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C1)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 74, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Jaguar XJ Series)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 66, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Jaguar XJ Series)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 2008470804752 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.