A26 crash in Lewes on 15 September 2014 at 17:30 involving a Rover 25
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Sep 2014
- Monday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 25 and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.8759, longitude 0.01974, in the BN7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewes. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lewes Bridge, Lewes, BN7 2RR area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014471405315
- 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
- 26
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 5 November 2015.
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Car crash on the A26 in Lewes, 17 February 1987
5 m awayRef 198747CA70119
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Renault Scenic crash on the A26 in Lewes, 2 May 2007
5 m awayRef 2007470703628
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Bicycle crash on the A26 in Lewes, 16 May 2009
5 m awayRef 2009470904188
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Ford Cortina crash on the A26 in Lewes, 14 January 1992
5 m awayRef 199247LA20017
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 25
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 85 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 680 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 52, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 2014471405315 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.