Unclassified road crash in Lewes BN25 on 12 March 2015 at 10:04 involving a Fiat 500
A bicycle and a Fiat 500 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Lewes at 10:04 on Thursday 12 March 2015. The 35-year-old female cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Mar 2015
- Thursday, 10:04
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Fiat 500
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.77294, longitude 0.10208, 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015471501431
- Council area
- Lewes
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 259
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
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 serious injury crash on 30 April 1979.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 30 April 1979
6 m awayRef 197947CA90368
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A259 in Lewes, 2 October 2000
6 m awayRef 200047S127379
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 29 February 2008
6 m awayRef 2008470801791
Slight
Rover 25 crash on the A259 in Lewes, 21 July 2005
6 m awayRef 2005470506126
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 1 August 2005
8 m awayRef 2005470506426
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 18 April 2007
8 m awayRef 2007470703303
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 35, on vehicle 1 (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 2015471501431 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 2015.