Unclassified road crash in Lewes BN10 on 10 April 2018 at 20:50 involving a Nissan Note
A Nissan Note, a Nissan X-Trail and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Lewes at 20:50 on Tuesday 10 April 2018. The 55-year-old male driver of the Nissan Note and the 58-year-old male driver of the Nissan X-Trail were 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
- 10 Apr 2018
- Tuesday, 20:50
- Vehicles
- 3
- Nissan Note and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79366, longitude 0.00167, 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
- 2018471801931
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 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, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 December 2021.
Serious
Skoda Fabia crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 15 December 2021
4 m awayRef 2021471124612
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 26 October 1981
4 m awayRef 198147CA11022
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 22 September 1987
6 m awayRef 198747CA70976
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 6 January 1987
6 m awayRef 198747CA70011
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 20 January 1998
6 m awayRef 199847SA80058
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 7 September 2009
12 m awayRef 2009470906580
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Note
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Nissan X-Trail
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,488 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- Yes
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Note)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan X-Trail)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2018471801931 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 2018.