Serious C road crash in Lewes BN1 on 24 October 2014 at 10:59 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306 crashed on a C road in Lewes at 10:59 on Friday 24 October 2014. The 22-year-old male driver and a 16-year-old female passenger were seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Oct 2014
- Friday, 10:59
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.88274, longitude -0.12168, in the BN1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014471406246
- 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
- 60 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
- Raining, 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 October 2004.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Lewes, 13 October 2004
13 m awayRef 200447K179626
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 15 December 2018
15 m awayRef 2018471806968
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Lewes, 29 October 1985
28 m awayRef 198547CA51146
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Lewes, 5 May 1982
28 m awayRef 198247CA20361
Serious
Renault Clio crash on a C road in Lewes, 5 February 1996
28 m awayRef 199647HA60082
Slight
Saab 99 crash on a C road in Lewes, 30 July 1993
28 m awayRef 199347HA30505
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,761 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2014471406246 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.