C road crash in Eastbourne BN22 on 23 May 1986 at 17:10 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Eastbourne at 17:10 on Friday 23 May 1986. The 16-year-old female rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 May 1986
- Friday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.77777, longitude 0.30536, in the BN22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Eastbourne.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198647SA60099
- Council area
- Eastbourne
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 February 2013.
Slight
Ford KA crash on a C road in Eastbourne, 15 February 2013
7 m awayRef 2013471300863
Fatal
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Eastbourne, 19 April 1991
10 m awayRef 199147SA10137
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Eastbourne, 11 July 1979
10 m awayRef 197947SA90321
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Eastbourne, 25 July 2011
10 m awayRef 2011471104664
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 11 March 1994
14 m awayRef 199447SA40184
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 27 February 2025
17 m awayRef 2025471562259
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 198647SA60099 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 1986.