Unclassified road crash in Lewes BN25 on 8 December 2014 at 16:00 involving a taxi
A taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Lewes at 16:00 on Monday 8 December 2014. A 62-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Dec 2014
- Monday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.77335, longitude 0.10197, in the BN25 postcode district and within the built-up area of Seaford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Seaford Central, Lewes, BN25 2AB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014471501556
- Council area
- Lewes
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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, no street lighting
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 December 1998.
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Lewes, 8 December 1998
19 m awayRef 199847S002000
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 25 March 2003
21 m awayRef 200347K161736
Slight
Scania crash on the A259 in Lewes, 8 April 2008
30 m awayRef 2008470802812
Serious
Vauxhall Combo crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 18 June 2018
32 m awayRef 2018471803344
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 22 March 2021
33 m awayRef 2021471030391
Serious
Toyota Avensis crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 10 May 2008
33 m awayRef 2008470803629
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 62, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2014471501556 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.