A275 crash in Lewes on 31 March 2016 at 07:40 involving a Citroen DS3
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Mar 2016
- Thursday, 07:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen DS3 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.91007, longitude -0.00564, in the BN8 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016471601955
- 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
- 275
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 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, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 January 2017.
Serious
BMW 5 Series crash on the A275 in Lewes, 24 January 2017
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Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 22 November 2002
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Slight
Qingqi QM 125 crash on the A275 in Lewes, 22 January 2018
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Slight
Daihatsu Terios crash on the A275 in Lewes, 25 October 2011
7 m awayRef 2011471106707
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A275 in Lewes, 19 July 2009
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Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A275 in Lewes, 29 March 2012
7 m awayRef 2012471201715
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen DS3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2016471601955 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.