A275 crash in Lewes on 27 April 2025 at 13:02 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and a Kawasaki ZX motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A275 in Lewes at 13:02 on Sunday 27 April 2025. The 56-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki ZX motorcycle and a 30-year-old male passenger in the Ford Transit van were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Apr 2025
- Sunday, 13:02
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and Kawasaki ZX
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.94519, longitude -0.02161, in the BN8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025471582598
- 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
- 275
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 March 2025.
Slight
Citroen C4 crash on the A275 in Lewes, 6 March 2025
6 m awayRef 2025471561924
Slight
Seat Toledo crash on the A275 in Lewes, 16 July 2016
7 m awayRef 2016471606266
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A275 in Lewes, 21 December 2005
9 m awayRef 2005470511212
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the A275 in Lewes, 16 December 1996
12 m awayRef 199647SA60956
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A275 in Lewes, 4 December 2016
12 m awayRef 2016471607294
Slight
Renault 21 crash on the A275 in Lewes, 24 December 1993
18 m awayRef 199347SA30774
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Kawasaki ZX
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 899 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 56, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Kawasaki ZX)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 30, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
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 2025471582598 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 2025.