A26 crash in Lewes on 19 April 2011 at 13:38 involving a Chrysler PT Cruiser
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Apr 2011
- Tuesday, 13:38
- Vehicles
- 1
- Chrysler PT Cruiser
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.80031, longitude 0.0533, in the BN9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newhaven. It is one of the crashes that make up the Newhaven North, Lewes, BN9 9BB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011471102462
- 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
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
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, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 April 2022.
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A26 in Lewes, 18 April 2022
32 m awayRef 2022471167416
Serious
Suzuki crash on the A26 in Lewes, 2 February 1995
45 m awayRef 199547SA50076
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A26 in Lewes, 21 February 1986
45 m awayRef 198647CA60156
Slight
Mercedes Vaneo crash on the A26 in Lewes, 27 October 2011
45 m awayRef 2011471106757
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A26 in Lewes, 5 December 2025
73 m awayRef 2025471678602
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A26 in Lewes, 8 August 1981
89 m awayRef 198147CA10704
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Chrysler PT Cruiser
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,429 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 24, hit by vehicle 1 (Chrysler PT Cruiser)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 2011471102462 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 2011.