C road crash in Lewes BN8 on 4 December 2012 at 18:25 involving a Qingqi QM 125 GY motorcycle
A Qingqi QM 125 GY motorcycle crashed on a C road in Lewes at 18:25 on Tuesday 4 December 2012. The 17-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Dec 2012
- Tuesday, 18:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Qingqi QM 125 GY
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.96217, longitude -0.00209, in the BN8 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012471206471
- 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
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Mud
- Carriageway hazards
- Mud
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, 178 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 May 1986.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Lewes, 11 May 1986
178 m awayRef 198647CA60424
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Lewes, 3 April 1988
184 m awayRef 198847LA80085
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Lewes, 28 July 1991
330 m awayRef 199147LA10296
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Lewes, 9 January 1988
330 m awayRef 198847LA80008
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Lewes, 26 February 1984
336 m awayRef 198447CA40207
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 27 July 2014
348 m awayRef 2014471404286
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Qingqi QM 125 GY
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Qingqi QM 125 GY)
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 2012471206471 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.