Unclassified road crash in Lewes BN10 on 16 December 2013 at 18:20 involving a Lexus LS430
A Lexus LS430 and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Lewes at 18:20 on Monday 16 December 2013. The 45-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 2013
- Monday, 18:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lexus LS430 and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79544, longitude -0.00278, in the BN10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Peacehaven. It is one of the crashes that make up the Peacehaven West, Lewes, BN10 7NL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013471306845
- Council area
- Lewes
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- 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
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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 fatal crash on 6 September 1980.
Fatal
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 6 September 1980
3 m awayRef 198047CA00820
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 12 January 2013
7 m awayRef 2013471300249
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 29 September 2014
7 m awayRef 2014471405626
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 17 February 1993
10 m awayRef 199347SA30098
Slight
Volkswagen Beetle crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 7 March 1998
12 m awayRef 199847SA80206
Slight
Honda C90 crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 10 May 2008
20 m awayRef 2008470803822
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lexus LS430
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,293 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 45, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 2013471306845 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.