Unclassified road crash in Eastbourne BN21 on 4 August 1979 at 13:10 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne at 13:10 on Saturday 4 August 1979. The 16-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Aug 1979
- Saturday, 13:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.77348, longitude 0.28557, in the BN21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Eastbourne.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197947SA90380
- Council area
- Eastbourne
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 August 2018.
Slight
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Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A2040 in Eastbourne, 1 September 2015
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Slight
Car crash on the A2040 in Eastbourne, 2 September 1982
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Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 6 December 2012
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Serious
Bicycle crash on the A2040 in Eastbourne, 11 November 2025
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Slight
Citroen C4 crash on the A2040 in Eastbourne, 6 August 2010
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 16, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 197947SA90380 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Eastbourne road accident statistics for 1979.