Serious unclassified road crash in Lewes BN25 on 15 February 2013 at 12:22 involving a Hyundai i30
A Hyundai i30 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Lewes at 12:22 on Friday 15 February 2013. A 72-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Feb 2013
- Friday, 12:22
- Vehicles
- 1
- Hyundai i30
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.7712, longitude 0.09987, in the BN25 postcode district and within the built-up area of Seaford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Seaford Central, Lewes, BN25 2AB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013471300856
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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
- 98%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 2%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 December 2003.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 30 December 2003
6 m awayRef 200347K170330
Slight
Honda Accord crash on a C road in Lewes, 26 January 2012
6 m awayRef 2012471200574
Slight
Vehicle crash on a C road in Lewes, 28 June 2004
15 m awayRef 200447K176163
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Lewes, 16 July 1985
15 m awayRef 198547CA50706
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Lewes, 18 March 1983
15 m awayRef 198347CA30249
Serious
Toyota Yaris crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 14 November 2019
34 m awayRef 2019470898745
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai i30
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 72, hit by vehicle 1 (Hyundai i30)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 2013471300856 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 2013.