Unclassified road crash in Lewes RH17 on 3 February 2016 at 00:01 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class crashed on an unclassified road in Lewes at 00:01 on Wednesday 3 February 2016. The 22-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Feb 2016
- Wednesday, 00:01
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.96066, longitude -0.0784, in the RH17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016471601283
- 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
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 77 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 April 1989.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 25 April 1989
77 m awayRef 198947HA90238
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 29 December 2016
94 m awayRef 2016471700014
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 10 April 1981
151 m awayRef 198147CA10314
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 16 December 1982
167 m awayRef 198247CA21275
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 31 July 2014
175 m awayRef 2014471404457
Slight
Audi C crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 15 June 1995
180 m awayRef 199547HA50340
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
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 2016471601283 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 2016.