B2112 crash in Lewes on 30 January 2017 at 17:44 involving a Toyota Aygo
A Toyota Aygo and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on the B2112 in Lewes at 17:44 on Monday 30 January 2017. The 88-year-old male driver of the Toyota Aygo was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jan 2017
- Monday, 17:44
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Aygo and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.92635, longitude -0.11438, in the BN6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ditchling.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017471700635
- 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
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights unlit
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 August 2000.
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the B2112 in Lewes, 27 August 2000
14 m awayRef 200047S126568
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the B2112 in Lewes, 25 November 1998
24 m awayRef 199847H001766
Fatal
Car crash on the B2112 in Lewes, 28 August 1987
47 m awayRef 198747HA70492
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B2112 in Lewes, 7 July 2022
48 m awayRef 2022471196232
Serious
BMW 5 Series crash on the B2112 in Lewes, 28 February 2008
67 m awayRef 2008470801680
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B2112 in Lewes, 13 June 2017
93 m awayRef 2017471703250
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Aygo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 88 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,494 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 88, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Aygo)
- 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 2017471700635 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 2017.