Unclassified road crash in Eastbourne BN22 on 4 September 1979 at 16:35 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Eastbourne at 16:35 on Tuesday 4 September 1979. An 8-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 4 Sep 1979
- Tuesday, 16:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.80179, longitude 0.26382, in the BN22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Eastbourne.
Map of where the crash happened in Eastbourne
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197947SA90432
- Council area
- Eastbourne
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 April 1990.
Slight
Triumph Acclaim crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 21 April 1990
22 m awayRef 199047SA00176
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 24 May 1984
22 m awayRef 198447SA40282
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 29 November 2009
41 m awayRef 2009470908972
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 5 May 1984
41 m awayRef 198447SA40243
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 10 June 2005
41 m awayRef 2005470504517
Serious
Vauxhall Combo crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 2 December 2024
46 m awayRef 2024471524604
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 197947SA90432 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.