A259 crash in Lewes on 26 November 2025 at 14:50 involving a Lexmoto LXR motorcycle
A Lexmoto LXR motorcycle and a Toyota Yaris were involved in a crash on the A259 in Lewes at 14:50 on Wednesday 26 November 2025. The 19-year-old male rider of the Lexmoto LXR motorcycle was 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
- 26 Nov 2025
- Wednesday, 14:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lexmoto LXR and Toyota Yaris
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79462, longitude -0.01763, in the BN10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Telscombe Cliffs. It is one of the crashes that make up the East Saltdean & Telscombe Cliffs, Lewes, BN10 7AH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewes
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025471675332
- Council area
- Lewes
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 259
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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 11 October 2018.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A259 in Lewes, 11 October 2018
2 m awayRef 2018471805627
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A259 in Lewes, 2 October 2002
3 m awayRef 200247K155128
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Lewes, 3 August 1983
3 m awayRef 198347CA30783
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Lewes, 14 June 1984
3 m awayRef 198447CA40669
Slight
Honda GLR 125 crash on the A259 in Lewes, 29 September 2020
5 m awayRef 2020470985285
Serious
Harley-Davidson XL crash on the A259 in Lewes, 13 June 2022
6 m awayRef 2022471187153
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lexmoto LXR
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Vehicle 2: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 82 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,490 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Lexmoto LXR)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2025471675332 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.