A259 crash in Lewes on 25 September 2016 at 19:28 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Peugeot 206 were involved in a crash on the A259 in Lewes at 19:28 on Sunday 25 September 2016. The 24-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus, the 29-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 206 and a 21-year-old male passenger in the Peugeot 206 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Sep 2016
- Sunday, 19:28
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79359, longitude 0.0444, in the BN9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newhaven. It is one of the crashes that make up the Newhaven South, Lewes, BN9 9FJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016471605802
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 16 May 2017.
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A259 in Lewes, 16 May 2017
1 m awayRef 2017471702686
Slight
Wrightbus Streetdeck crash on the A259 in Lewes, 28 November 2017
2 m awayRef 2017471706769
Slight
Jaguar XF Series crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 9 March 2022
3 m awayRef 2022471151956
Slight
Rover Montego crash on the A259 in Lewes, 26 April 1999
6 m awayRef 199947S002861
Serious
Morris Marina crash on the A259 in Lewes, 11 May 1991
6 m awayRef 199147LA10183
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Lewes, 8 March 1985
6 m awayRef 198547CA50211
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 206)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 206)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2016471605802 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.