Unclassified road crash in Lewes BN8 on 11 December 2018 at 14:20 involving a Suzuki SX4
A Suzuki SX4 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Lewes at 14:20 on Tuesday 11 December 2018. A 16-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Dec 2018
- Tuesday, 14:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki SX4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.97353, longitude -0.00668, in the BN8 postcode district and within the built-up area of North Chailey.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018471806895
- 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
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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, 142 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 April 2011.
Serious
Isuzu Trooper crash on the A272 in Lewes, 8 April 2011
142 m awayRef 2011471102259
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A272 in Lewes, 3 June 1995
150 m awayRef 199547SA50390
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A272 in Lewes, 23 April 1990
152 m awayRef 199047LA00254
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the A272 in Lewes, 15 March 2011
157 m awayRef 2011471101683
Serious
Austin Maestro crash on the A272 in Lewes, 30 January 1993
158 m awayRef 199347SA30067
Serious
Car crash on the A272 in Lewes, 27 September 1987
159 m awayRef 198747CA70888
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki SX4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,586 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Suzuki SX4)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2018471806895 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.