Unclassified road crash in Lewes BN9 on 13 May 2021 at 17:22 involving a Volkswagen T-Roc
A Volkswagen T-Roc and a Ford Kuga were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Lewes at 17:22 on Thursday 13 May 2021. The 24-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen T-Roc and the 31-year-old female driver of the Ford Kuga were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 May 2021
- Thursday, 17:22
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen T-Roc and Ford Kuga
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81861, longitude 0.02156, in the BN9 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021471045084
- 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
- 50 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
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 September 2021.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 27 September 2021
2 m awayRef 2021471092574
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Lewes, 5 April 1996
7 m awayRef 199647SA60230
Fatal
Car crash on a C road in Lewes, 28 September 1981
16 m awayRef 198147CA10896
Slight
Honda CD250U crash on a C road in Lewes, 23 July 1993
16 m awayRef 199347SA30419
Slight
Car crash on the A275 in Lewes, 25 August 1979
17 m awayRef 197947CA90819
Serious
KTM RC 125 crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 2 January 2025
18 m awayRef 2025471536949
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen T-Roc
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Kuga
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen T-Roc)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Kuga)
- 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 2021471045084 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 2021.