Unclassified road crash in Eastbourne BN20 on 28 July 1983 at 14:00 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne at 14:00 on Thursday 28 July 1983. The 44-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Jul 1983
- Thursday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78046, longitude 0.25499, in the BN20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Eastbourne.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198347SA30478
- Council area
- Eastbourne
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 13 January 1984.
Serious
Van crash on a C road in Eastbourne, 13 January 1984
At the same spotRef 198447SA40030
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Ford Galaxy crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 9 October 2025
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Serious
Car crash on a C road in Eastbourne, 2 September 1988
10 m awayRef 198847SA80377
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Eastbourne, 22 July 1987
10 m awayRef 198747SA70286
Serious
Van crash on a C road in Eastbourne, 17 July 1985
10 m awayRef 198547SA50232
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Eastbourne, 22 July 1988
10 m awayRef 198847SA80304
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 70 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 198347SA30478 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 1983.