A259 crash in Lewes on 28 August 2017 at 02:00 involving a Ford Transit minibus
A Ford Transit minibus and a Nissan Note were involved in a crash on the A259 in Lewes at 02:00 on Monday 28 August 2017. The 29-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit minibus was 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
- 28 Aug 2017
- Monday, 02:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and Nissan Note
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78898, longitude 0.01156, in the BN10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Peacehaven. It is one of the crashes that make up the Peacehaven East, Lewes, BN10 8RT area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017471704850
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 October 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Lewes, 19 October 1985
3 m awayRef 198547CA51153
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A259 in Lewes, 9 April 1983
8 m awayRef 198347CA30333
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A259 in Lewes, 2 October 2017
9 m awayRef 2017471705561
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A259 in Lewes, 29 May 1997
14 m awayRef 199747SA70359
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A259 in Lewes, 6 June 1994
14 m awayRef 199447SA40392
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A259 in Lewes, 2 August 2017
17 m awayRef 2017471707385
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Minibus (8 to 16 seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Nissan Note
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, minibus occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2017471704850 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.