B2112 crash in Lewes on 17 November 2015 at 09:10 involving a Mazda MX-5
A Mazda MX-5, a Toyota RAV4 and a car were involved in a crash on the B2112 in Lewes at 09:10 on Tuesday 17 November 2015. The 61-year-old male driver of the Mazda MX-5 and the 37-year-old female driver of the Toyota RAV4 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Nov 2015
- Tuesday, 09:10
- Vehicles
- 3
- Mazda MX-5 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.93303, longitude -0.1091, in the BN6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015471506792
- Council area
- Lewes
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2112
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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, 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, 21 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 June 2009.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B2112 in Lewes, 15 June 2009
21 m awayRef 2009470904281
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the B2112 in Lewes, 4 August 1990
25 m awayRef 199047HA00337
Slight
Car crash on the B2112 in Lewes, 8 August 1983
68 m awayRef 198347CA30794
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B2112 in Lewes, 18 March 2014
78 m awayRef 2014471401495
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B2112 in Lewes, 20 July 2016
90 m awayRef 2016471604350
Serious
Car crash on the B2112 in Lewes, 25 September 1984
94 m awayRef 198447CA41044
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Mazda MX-5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota RAV4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda MX-5)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota RAV4)
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 2015471506792 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.