Unclassified road crash in Lewes BN25 on 30 June 2012 at 15:10 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Triumph Sprint ST 1050 motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Lewes at 15:10 on Saturday 30 June 2012. A 46-year-old female passenger on the Triumph Sprint ST 1050 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jun 2012
- Saturday, 15:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Triumph Sprint ST 1050
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78221, longitude 0.09507, in the BN25 postcode district and within the built-up area of Seaford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Seaford West, Lewes, BN25 2RE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012471203353
- 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
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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 serious injury crash on 22 August 1989.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 22 August 1989
22 m awayRef 198947LA90332
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 22 May 1993
22 m awayRef 199347SA30285
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 25 July 1992
28 m awayRef 199247LA20309
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 13 November 2006
41 m awayRef 2006470609962
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on a C road in Lewes, 25 October 1999
188 m awayRef 199947S003895
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 4 October 2017
246 m awayRef 2017471705639
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Triumph Sprint ST 1050
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,050 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 46, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Triumph Sprint ST 1050)
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 2012471203353 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.