Unclassified road crash in Lewes BN25 on 31 March 2015 at 17:50 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Lewes at 17:50 on Tuesday 31 March 2015. A 10-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Mar 2015
- Tuesday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.77629, longitude 0.11308, in the BN25 postcode district and within the built-up area of Seaford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Seaford East, Lewes, BN25 4EZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015471501803
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine with 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, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 March 1981.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 6 March 1981
20 m awayRef 198147CA10208
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 9 October 1980
20 m awayRef 198047CA00970
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 17 April 1997
20 m awayRef 199747SA70262
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 26 July 1979
51 m awayRef 197947CA90698
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 5 July 1999
89 m awayRef 199947S003250
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 21 December 1996
100 m awayRef 199647SA60966
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering from slip road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,544 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 2015471501803 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.