A27 crash in Lewes on 27 March 2015 at 16:37 involving a Vauxhall Combo
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Mar 2015
- Friday, 16:37
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Combo and Audi A4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.86574, longitude -0.03669, in the BN7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015471501704
- 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
- 27
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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, 9 metres away, was a fatal crash on 28 March 1981.
Fatal
Car crash on the A27 in Lewes, 28 March 1981
9 m awayRef 198147CA10270
Serious
Car crash on the A27 in Lewes, 21 December 1982
9 m awayRef 198247CA21296
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A27 in Lewes, 25 January 1997
20 m awayRef 199747SA70074
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A27 in Lewes, 22 July 1997
27 m awayRef 199747SA70499
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A27 in Lewes, 28 April 2007
36 m awayRef 2007470703521
Slight
Toyota MR2 crash on the A27 in Lewes, 5 May 1999
43 m awayRef 199947S002907
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Combo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
Vehicle 2: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi A4)
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 2015471501704 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.