Unclassified road crash in Lewes BN25 on 6 October 2021 at 08:36 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Lewes at 08:36 on Wednesday 6 October 2021. A 12-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Oct 2021
- Wednesday, 08:36
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.77143, longitude 0.11861, in the BN25 postcode district and within the built-up area of Seaford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Seaford East, Lewes, BN25 4EZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021471095664
- 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
- 20 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
- 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, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 September 2025.
Slight
Volkswagen Tiguan crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 9 September 2025
19 m awayRef 2025471639169
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 22 April 1985
28 m awayRef 198547CA50367
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Lewes, 27 May 2009
29 m awayRef 2009470903820
Slight
Hyundai Accent crash on a C road in Lewes, 5 November 1996
36 m awayRef 199647SA60813
Slight
Honda Civic crash on a C road in Lewes, 14 March 1996
38 m awayRef 199647SA60168
Serious
Opel Manta crash on a C road in Lewes, 3 June 1997
38 m awayRef 199747SA70360
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2021471095664 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.