Unclassified road crash in Lewes BN9 on 5 December 2019 at 05:50 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Lewes at 05:50 on Thursday 5 December 2019. The 44-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Dec 2019
- Thursday, 05:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78971, longitude 0.04422, in the BN9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newhaven. It is one of the crashes that make up the Newhaven South, Lewes, BN9 9FJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019470905862
- 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
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
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, 22 metres away, was a fatal crash on 17 April 1983.
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 17 April 1983
22 m awayRef 198347CA30371
Slight
Suzuki Supercarry crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 28 September 1994
68 m awayRef 199447SA40630
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Lewes, 15 March 2008
107 m awayRef 2008470802150
Slight
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 21 December 2023
113 m awayRef 2023471391087
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 26 July 1989
114 m awayRef 198947LA90292
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 26 January 1990
124 m awayRef 199047LA00062
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2019470905862 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.