C road crash in Eastbourne BN20 on 9 June 1982 at 20:00 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Eastbourne at 20:00 on Wednesday 9 June 1982. A 17-year-old female passenger and the 19-year-old male driver were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Jun 1982
- Wednesday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.73916, longitude 0.23259, in the BN20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Eastbourne
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198247SA20347
- Council area
- Eastbourne
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 April 2008.
Slight
Renault Scenic crash on the B2103 in Eastbourne, 17 April 2008
14 m awayRef 2008470802995
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 26 February 2006
51 m awayRef 2006470601745
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Eastbourne, 27 December 1982
82 m awayRef 198247SA20928
Fatal
Mazda MX-5 crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 1 April 2024
98 m awayRef 2024471427107
Slight
Aprilia RS4 crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 3 March 2025
107 m awayRef 2025471560656
Serious
Fiat 500 crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 22 June 2024
119 m awayRef 2024471458783
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198247SA20347 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 1982.