Serious unclassified road crash in Lewes BN1 on 28 September 2015 at 08:26 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on an unclassified road in Lewes at 08:26 on Monday 28 September 2015. The 31-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Sep 2015
- Monday, 08:26
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.86381, longitude -0.07853, in the BN1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brighton and Hove. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kingston, Lewes, BN1 9BT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015471505639
- 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
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- 97%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 3%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 23 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 November 2010.
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A27 in Lewes, 4 November 2010
23 m awayRef 2010471007444
Slight
Citroen C15 crash on the A27 in Lewes, 12 February 2007
23 m awayRef 2007470701827
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the A27 in Brighton and Hove, 21 May 1994
23 m awayRef 199447CA40407
Slight
Audi A1 crash on the A27 in Lewes, 23 December 2024
27 m awayRef 2024471534369
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A27 in Brighton and Hove, 5 July 1999
28 m awayRef 199947C004552
Slight
Car crash on the A27 in Lewes, 29 March 1979
28 m awayRef 197947CA90252
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 31, 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 2015471505639 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.