Unclassified road crash in Lewes BN9 on 9 July 2011 at 19:13 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Lewes at 19:13 on Saturday 9 July 2011. The 21-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Jul 2011
- Saturday, 19:13
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79442, longitude 0.05078, 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011471104241
- Council area
- Lewes
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 September 1994.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 19 September 1994
10 m awayRef 199447SA40615
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 21 November 2001
20 m awayRef 200147S144945
Slight
Taxi crash on the A259 in Lewes, 14 August 1998
28 m awayRef 199847S001022
Serious
Isuzu Trooper crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 5 July 1996
32 m awayRef 199647SA60449
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A259 in Lewes, 25 September 1998
32 m awayRef 199847S001337
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 2 February 2011
36 m awayRef 2011471100710
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, 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 2011471104241 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.