Unclassified road crash in Lewes BN25 on 20 October 2017 at 12:56 involving a Nissan Note
A Nissan Note and a Gilera Runner 125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Lewes at 12:56 on Friday 20 October 2017. The 26-year-old male rider of the Gilera Runner 125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Oct 2017
- Friday, 12:56
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Note and Gilera Runner 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.7819, longitude 0.12688, 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
- 2017471705947
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 October 2009.
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Note
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Gilera Runner 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 26, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Gilera Runner 125)
- 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 2017471705947 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.