C road crash in Lewes BN7 on 9 July 2011 at 19:00 involving a Piaggio Zip motorcycle
A Piaggio Zip motorcycle crashed on a C road in Lewes at 19:00 on Saturday 9 July 2011. The 21-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Jul 2011
- Saturday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Piaggio Zip
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.86729, longitude -0.00202, in the BN7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011471104242
- Council area
- Lewes
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 November 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the A27 in Lewes, 23 November 1980
41 m awayRef 198047CA01121
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Lewes, 9 August 1982
50 m awayRef 198247CA20716
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A27 in Lewes, 27 May 2012
58 m awayRef 2012471202710
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A275 in Lewes, 26 July 1979
58 m awayRef 197947CA90699
Serious
Ford Orion crash on a C road in Lewes, 26 November 1999
64 m awayRef 199947S004047
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 20 December 1996
73 m awayRef 199647SA61001
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Piaggio Zip
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Piaggio Zip)
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 2011471104242 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.