C road crash in Lewes BN25 on 12 October 2012 at 10:46 involving a Toyota Corolla
A Toyota Corolla crashed on a C road in Lewes at 10:46 on Friday 12 October 2012. An 81-year-old female passenger 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
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Oct 2012
- Friday, 10:46
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Corolla
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.77328, longitude 0.1246, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012471205361
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 259
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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 November 1990.
Slight
Skoda 120 crash on the A259 in Lewes, 16 November 1990
3 m awayRef 199047LA00556
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A259 in Lewes, 19 January 2017
4 m awayRef 2017471700385
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the A259 in Lewes, 18 September 2013
10 m awayRef 2013471304926
Slight
Volkswagen Beetle crash on the A259 in Lewes, 19 December 1994
10 m awayRef 199447SA40881
Serious
Car crash on the A259 in Lewes, 3 September 1979
10 m awayRef 197947CA90862
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Lewes, 22 October 1983
10 m awayRef 198347CA31115
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Corolla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 84 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 81, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Corolla)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2012471205361 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.