Unclassified road crash in Lewes BN10 on 19 December 2017 at 10:00 involving a Peugeot Partner van
A Peugeot Partner van and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Lewes at 10:00 on Tuesday 19 December 2017. A 58-year-old male passenger in the BMW 3 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 2017
- Tuesday, 10:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot Partner and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79728, longitude -0.00004, in the BN10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Peacehaven. It is one of the crashes that make up the Peacehaven West, Lewes, BN10 7NL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017471707219
- Council area
- Lewes
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- 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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 July 2007.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 8 July 2007
10 m awayRef 2007470705742
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 14 November 1985
10 m awayRef 198547CA51260
Serious
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 16 November 2007
16 m awayRef 2007470709637
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on a C road in Lewes, 18 May 2005
16 m awayRef 2005470503810
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 2 October 1989
16 m awayRef 198947LA90419
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 22 June 1981
20 m awayRef 198147CA10544
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Partner
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 3 Series)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat 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 2017471707219 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.