Serious A2029 crash in Lewes on 23 July 2014 at 21:28 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306 and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A2029 in Lewes at 21:28 on Wednesday 23 July 2014. The 57-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Jul 2014
- Wednesday, 21:28
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 306 and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.87798, longitude 0.0004, in the BN7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewes. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lewes Castle, Lewes, BN7 1AD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014471404194
- Council area
- Lewes
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2029
- 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, street lights lit
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 28 February 2021.
Slight
Yamaha MT crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 28 February 2021
1 m awayRef 2021471025141
Slight
Smart Forfour crash on the A2029 in Lewes, 21 February 2017
2 m awayRef 2017471701078
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A2029 in Lewes, 27 September 2015
4 m awayRef 2015471505610
Slight
Austin Allegro crash on the A2029 in Lewes, 6 December 1990
4 m awayRef 199047LA00624
Slight
Car crash on the A2029 in Lewes, 4 October 1980
4 m awayRef 198047CA00926
Slight
Car crash on the A2029 in Lewes, 30 March 2015
4 m awayRef 2015471501773
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 57, 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 2014471404194 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.