Serious unclassified road crash in Lewes BN25 on 7 September 2018 at 12:30 involving a Yamaha FZ6 motorcycle
Four vehicles, including a car and a Yamaha FZ6 motorcycle, were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Lewes at 12:30 on Friday 7 September 2018. The 47-year-old male rider of the Yamaha FZ6 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Sep 2018
- Friday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 4
- Yamaha FZ6 and 3 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.76893, longitude 0.10037, in the BN25 postcode district and within the built-up area of Seaford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Seaford Central, Lewes, BN25 2AB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018471804987
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 98%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 2%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 December 2021.
Slight
Audi A1 crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 6 December 2021
2 m awayRef 2021471117990
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 9 November 2005
6 m awayRef 2005470509492
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 20 December 1987
6 m awayRef 198747LA70063
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 20 January 1998
6 m awayRef 199847SA80072
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 12 January 1983
6 m awayRef 198347CA30040
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 12 March 1989
6 m awayRef 198947LA90048
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 76 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Yamaha FZ6
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 3: Kia Picanto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,086 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 4: Ford Transit Custom
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 47, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha FZ6)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2018471804987 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.