A259 crash in Eastbourne on 27 April 1991 at 12:44 involving a Toyota
A Toyota crashed on the A259 in Eastbourne at 12:44 on Saturday 27 April 1991. A 16-year-old female passenger 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
- 27 Apr 1991
- Saturday, 12:44
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.75681, longitude 0.26434, in the BN20 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
- 199147SA10143
- Council area
- Eastbourne
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 259
- 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
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 199147SA10143 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 1991.