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Serious unclassified road crash in Eastbourne BN22 on 11 May 1992 at 12:45 involving a Kawasaki Z550 motorcycle

A Kawasaki Z550 motorcycle hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Eastbourne at 12:45 on Monday 11 May 1992. A 73-year-old male pedestrian was seriously 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
Serious
Date
11 May 1992
Monday, 12:45
Vehicles
1
Kawasaki Z550
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.77492, longitude 0.29033, in the BN22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Eastbourne.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199247SA20189
Council area
Eastbourne
Police force
Sussex

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 July 1987.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Kawasaki Z550

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    28 years
    Engine capacity
    553 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    3 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 73, hit by vehicle 1 (Kawasaki Z550)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

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 199247SA20189 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 1992.