Unclassified road crash in Lewes BN25 on 14 August 2017 at 07:21 involving a Toyota Starlet
A Toyota Starlet crashed on an unclassified road in Lewes at 07:21 on Monday 14 August 2017. The 28-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Aug 2017
- Monday, 07:21
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Starlet
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.77139, longitude 0.11672, in the BN25 postcode district and within the built-up area of Seaford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Seaford East, Lewes, BN25 4EZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017471704547
- 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
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 November 2003.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 10 November 2003
10 m awayRef 200347K168740
Slight
Porsche 924 crash on a C road in Lewes, 11 May 1995
24 m awayRef 199547SA50308
Slight
Honda Accord crash on a C road in Lewes, 5 February 1992
24 m awayRef 199247LA20057
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on a C road in Wealden, 5 September 2003
60 m awayRef 200347K166550
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Lewes, 10 October 1995
60 m awayRef 199547SA50693
Slight
Honda MTX50S crash on a C road in Lewes, 16 October 1990
91 m awayRef 199047LA00497
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Starlet
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,332 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 20 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Starlet)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most 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 2017471704547 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.