B2112 crash in Lewes on 23 February 2012 at 08:29 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus, a Ford Ranger van and a car were involved in a crash on the B2112 in Lewes at 08:29 on Thursday 23 February 2012. The 24-year-old male driver of the Ford Ranger van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Feb 2012
- Thursday, 08:29
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Focus and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.94284, longitude -0.1047, in the BN6 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Burgess Hill St Andrews, Mid Sussex, RH15 0SD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012471200982
- Council area
- Lewes
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2112
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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 serious injury crash on 4 September 2003.
Serious
Nissan Primera crash on the B2112 in Lewes, 4 September 2003
10 m awayRef 200347K166702
Serious
Car crash on the B2112 in Lewes, 10 March 2007
10 m awayRef 2007470702169
Serious
Car crash on the B2112 in Lewes, 17 February 1989
22 m awayRef 198947HA90116
Fatal
Suzuki crash on the B2112 in Lewes, 28 August 2012
40 m awayRef 2012471204424
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B2112 in Lewes, 26 March 2003
85 m awayRef 200347K161228
Serious
Rover Metro crash on the B2113 in Mid Sussex, 22 April 1994
124 m awayRef 199447HA40230
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Ranger
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,500 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Ranger)
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 2012471200982 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 2012.