A259 crash in Lewes on 28 November 2017 at 20:30 involving a Wrightbus Streetdeck
A car and a Wrightbus Streetdeck were involved in a crash on the A259 in Lewes at 20:30 on Tuesday 28 November 2017. A 60-year-old female passenger in the Wrightbus Streetdeck was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Nov 2017
- Tuesday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Wrightbus Streetdeck
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79367, longitude 0.04442, in the BN9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newhaven. It is one of the crashes that make up the Newhaven South, Lewes, BN9 9FJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017471706769
- 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
- 259
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Stop sign
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 9 March 2022.
Slight
Jaguar XF Series crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 9 March 2022
1 m awayRef 2022471151956
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A259 in Lewes, 16 May 2017
1 m awayRef 2017471702686
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A259 in Lewes, 25 September 2016
2 m awayRef 2016471605802
Slight
Rover Montego crash on the A259 in Lewes, 26 April 1999
5 m awayRef 199947S002861
Serious
Morris Marina crash on the A259 in Lewes, 11 May 1991
5 m awayRef 199147LA10183
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Lewes, 8 March 1985
5 m awayRef 198547CA50211
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Wrightbus Streetdeck
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,132 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 60, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 2 (Wrightbus Streetdeck)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Standing passenger
- 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 2017471706769 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.