Serious C road crash in Lewes BN25 on 26 June 2012 at 19:09 involving a Mini One
A Mini One and a Toyota Yaris were involved in a crash on a C road in Lewes at 19:09 on Tuesday 26 June 2012. The 63-year-old male driver of the Toyota Yaris was seriously injured and the 22-year-old female driver of the Mini One was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Jun 2012
- Tuesday, 19:09
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mini One and Toyota Yaris
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.77719, longitude 0.11655, in the BN25 postcode district and within the built-up area of Seaford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Seaford East, Lewes, BN25 4EZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012471203241
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 97%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 3%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 May 2008.
Slight
Citroen AX crash on a C road in Lewes, 31 May 2008
5 m awayRef 2008470804213
Slight
Mercedes 300 crash on a C road in Lewes, 11 February 1992
5 m awayRef 199247LA20069
Slight
Hyundai S-Coupe crash on a C road in Lewes, 21 February 1992
5 m awayRef 199247LA20082
Slight
Hyundai Pony crash on a C road in Lewes, 15 January 1995
5 m awayRef 199547SA50026
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Lewes, 24 April 1985
18 m awayRef 198547CA50556
Serious
Kia Sorento crash on a C road in Lewes, 28 January 2007
25 m awayRef 2007470700851
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mini One
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,329 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mini One)
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 63, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Yaris)
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 2012471203241 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.