A27 crash in Lewes on 1 November 2019 at 08:15 involving a Honda CBR125R motorcycle
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Nov 2019
- Friday, 08:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda CBR125R
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.85217, longitude 0.10863, in the BN8 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Arlington, Wealden, BN8 6LJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019470894033
- Council area
- Lewes
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 27
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 81 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 November 2025.
Slight
BMW X5 crash on the A27 in Lewes, 29 November 2025
81 m awayRef 2025471675804
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A27 in Lewes, 21 April 2002
86 m awayRef 200247K149468
Fatal
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A27 in Lewes, 14 February 1997
89 m awayRef 199747SA70115
Slight
Car crash on the A27 in Lewes, 14 February 1980
102 m awayRef 198047CA00154
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A27 in Lewes, 2 April 1988
102 m awayRef 198847LA80078
Slight
Renault 21 crash on the A27 in Lewes, 22 January 1994
102 m awayRef 199447SA40039
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda CBR125R
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda CBR125R)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2019470894033 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 2019.