A26 crash in Lewes on 24 November 2017 at 13:50 involving a Wrightbus Streetdeck
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Nov 2017
- Friday, 13:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Wrightbus Streetdeck
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79937, longitude 0.05391, in the BN9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newhaven. It is one of the crashes that make up the Newhaven North, Lewes, BN9 9BB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017471706831
- 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
- 26
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 August 1981.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A26 in Lewes, 8 August 1981
30 m awayRef 198147CA10704
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A26 in Lewes, 5 December 2025
46 m awayRef 2025471678602
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A26 in Lewes, 21 February 1986
74 m awayRef 198647CA60156
Slight
Car crash on the A26 in Lewes, 12 May 1987
83 m awayRef 198747CA70393
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 14 February 1979
90 m awayRef 197947CA90128
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 21 December 1979
92 m awayRef 197947CA91289
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Wrightbus Streetdeck
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,132 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 80, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Wrightbus Streetdeck)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2017471706831 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.