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B2106 crash in Eastbourne on 18 January 1980 at 03:45 involving a car

A car crashed on the B2106 in Eastbourne at 03:45 on Friday 18 January 1980. A 29-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
18 Jan 1980
Friday, 03:45
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.77164, longitude 0.29697, 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
198047SA00016
Council area
Eastbourne
Police force
Sussex

Road and location details

First road class
B
First road number
2106
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

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
Dark, street lights unlit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 April 1995.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North East
    Hit object in carriageway
    Kerb
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Lamp post
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    35 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Male, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

    Car passenger
    Front seat passenger

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 198047SA00016 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 1980.