Unclassified road crash in Lewes BN25 on 10 August 2011 at 17:30 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Lewes at 17:30 on Wednesday 10 August 2011. The 35-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Aug 2011
- Wednesday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Clio and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.767, longitude 0.10574, in the BN25 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011471105192
- 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
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 March 1992.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 16 March 1992
22 m awayRef 199247LA20114
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 16 June 1979
28 m awayRef 197947CA90536
Serious
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 2 December 2016
29 m awayRef 2016471607256
Slight
Alfa Romeo 164 crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 12 December 1996
32 m awayRef 199647SA60960
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 15 July 1989
32 m awayRef 198947LA90276
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 4 March 1988
32 m awayRef 198847LA80047
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
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 2011471105192 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.