A259 crash in Lewes on 27 July 2015 at 18:21 involving an Iveco Daily van
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Jul 2015
- Monday, 18:21
- Vehicles
- 1
- Iveco Daily
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.77655, longitude 0.09329, 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
- 2015471504318
- 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
- 259
- 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
- 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, 17 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 12 September 1998.
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A259 in Lewes, 12 September 1998
17 m awayRef 199847S001230
Slight
Kawasaki ZR750 crash on the A259 in Lewes, 23 November 2008
19 m awayRef 2008470809015
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A259 in Lewes, 9 April 2009
19 m awayRef 2009470902494
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A259 in Lewes, 12 May 1990
20 m awayRef 199047LA00229
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Lewes, 18 October 1986
20 m awayRef 198647CA61100
Serious
Van crash on the A259 in Lewes, 19 December 1985
20 m awayRef 198547CA51397
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Iveco Daily
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,287 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 42, hit by vehicle 1 (Iveco Daily)
- 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 2015471504318 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.