Unclassified road crash in Lewes BN25 on 13 May 2025 at 15:05 involving a Seat Ibiza
A Seat Ibiza and a Volkswagen T-Roc were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Lewes at 15:05 on Tuesday 13 May 2025. The 29-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen T-Roc, a 5-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen T-Roc and the 22-year-old male driver of the Seat Ibiza were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 May 2025
- Tuesday, 15:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Seat Ibiza and Volkswagen T-Roc
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78262, longitude 0.12616, in the BN25 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Seaford East, Lewes, BN25 4EZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025471589617
- 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
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 August 1993.
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Lewes, 20 August 1993
2 m awayRef 199347SA30493
Serious
Mazda 626 crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 12 March 2002
2 m awayRef 200247S148648
Serious
Austin Maestro crash on a C road in Lewes, 7 May 1992
2 m awayRef 199247LA20195
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Lewes, 25 March 1987
2 m awayRef 198747CA70262
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 9 January 2025
4 m awayRef 2025471539635
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Lewes, 18 December 1981
9 m awayRef 198147CA11250
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen T-Roc
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen T-Roc)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 5, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen T-Roc)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Ibiza)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 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 2025471589617 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.