C road crash in Lewes BN7 on 27 May 2014 at 08:49 involving a Suzuki GSX 650 motorcycle
A Suzuki GSX 650 motorcycle crashed on a C road in Lewes at 08:49 on Tuesday 27 May 2014. The 41-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 May 2014
- Tuesday, 08:49
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki GSX 650
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.83707, longitude 0.01163, in the BN7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014471402919
- 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
- 50 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
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, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 February 1990.
Slight
BMW crash on a C road in Lewes, 2 February 1990
16 m awayRef 199047LA00077
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on a C road in Lewes, 14 December 2007
16 m awayRef 2007470710548
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 22 September 2018
24 m awayRef 2018471805245
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Lewes, 15 May 1985
37 m awayRef 198547CA50513
Serious
Fiat Cinquecento crash on a C road in Lewes, 9 January 2002
40 m awayRef 200247S146731
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 12 December 2016
46 m awayRef 2016471607526
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSX 650
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 656 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 41, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSX 650)
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 2014471402919 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 2014.