A259 crash in Lewes on 9 August 2018 at 09:10 involving a Wrightbus Streetdeck
A Wrightbus Streetdeck and a car were involved in a crash on the A259 in Lewes at 09:10 on Thursday 9 August 2018. A 28-year-old female passenger in the Wrightbus Streetdeck was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Aug 2018
- Thursday, 09:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Wrightbus Streetdeck and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78782, longitude 0.02124, in the BN10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Peacehaven. It is one of the crashes that make up the Peacehaven East, Lewes, BN10 8RT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018471804428
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 April 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Lewes, 29 April 1982
3 m awayRef 198247CA20349
Serious
Car crash on the A259 in Lewes, 26 November 1982
3 m awayRef 198247CA21177
Slight
Van crash on the A259 in Lewes, 8 June 1984
3 m awayRef 198447CA40574
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A259 in Lewes, 11 July 1979
12 m awayRef 197947CA90628
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A259 in Lewes, 17 December 1996
12 m awayRef 199647SA60973
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 7 July 1984
22 m awayRef 198447CA40741
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Wrightbus Streetdeck
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North 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
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,132 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North 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
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 28, 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 2018471804428 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.