A259 crash in Eastbourne on 21 March 1996 at 20:30 involving a Proton Proton
A Proton Proton hit a pedestrian on the A259 in Eastbourne at 20:30 on Thursday 21 March 1996. A 33-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Mar 1996
- Thursday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Proton Proton
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.76907, longitude 0.28153, in the BN21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Eastbourne.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199647SA60186
- Council area
- Eastbourne
- Police force
- Sussex
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 259
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 259
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 August 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Eastbourne, 28 August 1979
At the same spotRef 197947SA90431
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A259 in Eastbourne, 12 August 1996
At the same spotRef 199647SA60556
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Eastbourne, 8 April 1987
At the same spotRef 198747SA70125
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A259 in Eastbourne, 16 March 1983
At the same spotRef 198347SA30146
Slight
Skoda 120 crash on the A259 in Eastbourne, 1 July 1991
At the same spotRef 199147SA10389
Serious
Audi Q5 crash on the A259 in Eastbourne, 28 September 2023
At the same spotRef 2023471357735
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Proton Proton
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,468 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 33, hit by vehicle 1 (Proton Proton)
- 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 199647SA60186 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 1996.