A259 crash in Lewes on 21 November 2015 at 09:33 involving a Honda CRV
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Nov 2015
- Saturday, 09:33
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda CRV and Peugeot 307
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.7904, longitude 0.0062, in the BN10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Peacehaven. It is one of the crashes that make up the Peacehaven East, Lewes, BN10 8RT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015471506882
- 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
- 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 October 2015.
Slight
Skoda Felicia crash on the A259 in Lewes, 1 October 2015
5 m awayRef 2015471505912
Serious
Ford Granada crash on the A259 in Lewes, 14 December 1991
9 m awayRef 199147LA10509
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Lewes, 18 July 1982
12 m awayRef 198247CA20623
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A259 in Lewes, 10 January 2025
12 m awayRef 2025471539739
Serious
Fiat 500 crash on the A259 in Lewes, 1 December 2024
13 m awayRef 2024471524108
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the A259 in Lewes, 25 May 2012
22 m awayRef 2012471202662
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda CRV
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 71 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,973 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 307
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 71, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda CRV)
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 2015471506882 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.