Unclassified road crash in Lewes BN10 on 6 October 2025 at 18:22 involving a Kawasaki BX 125 motorcycle
A car and a Kawasaki BX 125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Lewes at 18:22 on Monday 6 October 2025. The 17-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki BX 125 motorcycle was 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
- 6 Oct 2025
- Monday, 18:22
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Kawasaki BX 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79398, longitude 0.00032, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025471651085
- 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
- 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, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 October 2014.
Serious
Fiat Ducato crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 16 October 2014
4 m awayRef 2014471406096
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 17 May 1986
8 m awayRef 198647CA60457
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 28 July 2013
15 m awayRef 2013471303917
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 26 January 1996
28 m awayRef 199647SA60047
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 25 February 1982
29 m awayRef 198247CA20155
Slight
Scania crash on an unclassified road in Lewes, 12 May 1997
34 m awayRef 199747SA70317
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
Vehicle 2: Kawasaki BX 125
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Kawasaki BX 125)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 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 2025471651085 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.