Serious unclassified road crash in Lewes BN10 on 21 June 2021 at 18:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Lewes at 18:30 on Monday 21 June 2021. A 40-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Jun 2021
- Monday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79601, longitude -0.00199, in the BN10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Peacehaven. It is one of the crashes that make up the Peacehaven West, Lewes, BN10 7NL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021471058129
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 40 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 December 2004.
Slight
Chrysler Neon crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 14 December 2004
40 m awayRef 200447K181994
Slight
Lexus LS430 crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 16 December 2013
79 m awayRef 2013471306845
Fatal
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 6 September 1980
81 m awayRef 198047CA00820
Slight
Volkswagen Beetle crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 7 March 1998
82 m awayRef 199847SA80206
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 12 January 2013
84 m awayRef 2013471300249
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 29 September 2014
85 m awayRef 2014471405626
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 40, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2021471058129 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.