A275 crash in Lewes on 2 August 2017 at 05:10 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio and a Suzuki SV 650 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A275 in Lewes at 05:10 on Wednesday 2 August 2017. The 25-year-old male rider of the Suzuki SV 650 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Aug 2017
- Wednesday, 05:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Clio and Suzuki SV 650
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.91022, longitude -0.00566, in the BN8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017471704323
- Council area
- Lewes
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 275
- 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
- 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 12 November 1999.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A275 in Lewes, 12 November 1999
5 m awayRef 199947S003974
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A275 in Lewes, 25 February 2011
5 m awayRef 2011471101291
Slight
Qingqi QM 125 crash on the A275 in Lewes, 22 January 2018
7 m awayRef 2018471800389
Slight
Peugeot 807 crash on the A275 in Lewes, 28 December 2013
7 m awayRef 2013471307091
Serious
BMW 5 Series crash on the A275 in Lewes, 24 January 2017
10 m awayRef 2017471700502
Slight
Citroen DS3 crash on the A275 in Lewes, 31 March 2016
10 m awayRef 2016471601955
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Suzuki SV 650
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 645 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 25, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Suzuki SV 650)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2017471704323 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.