B2123 crash in Lewes on 24 December 2014 at 12:50 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira and a Lexus IS300 were involved in a crash on the B2123 in Lewes at 12:50 on Wednesday 24 December 2014. The 53-year-old male driver of the Lexus IS300 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2014
- Wednesday, 12:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Zafira and Lexus IS300
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84878, longitude -0.07034, in the BN2 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Woodingdean, Brighton and Hove, BN2 6AH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014471407592
- Council area
- Lewes
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2123
- 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
- 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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 October 2021.
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on the B2123 in Lewes, 13 October 2021
6 m awayRef 2021471098301
Slight
Land Rover crash on the B2123 in Lewes, 23 March 1996
7 m awayRef 199647SA60232
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B2123 in Lewes, 27 February 1994
7 m awayRef 199447SA40192
Slight
Car crash on the B2123 in Lewes, 20 September 1984
8 m awayRef 198447CA41028
Slight
Car crash on the B2123 in Lewes, 28 October 2014
9 m awayRef 2014471406324
Serious
Car crash on the B2123 in Brighton and Hove, 1 November 1988
9 m awayRef 198847CA80889
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Lexus IS300
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,493 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Lexus IS300)
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 2014471407592 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.