Unclassified road crash in Eastbourne BN22 on 10 September 1997 at 08:20 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on an unclassified road in Eastbourne at 08:20 on Wednesday 10 September 1997. A 14-year-old female passenger 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
- 10 Sep 1997
- Wednesday, 08:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.80181, longitude 0.26751, 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
- 199747SA70615
- Council area
- Eastbourne
- Police force
- Sussex
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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, 45 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 May 1979.
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 27 May 1979
45 m awayRef 197947SA90227
Slight
E-scooter crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 30 June 2025
52 m awayRef 2025471610132
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 12 September 1979
58 m awayRef 197947SA90447
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 20 November 1987
67 m awayRef 198747SA70520
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 2 August 1994
72 m awayRef 199447SA40491
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 23 August 2025
77 m awayRef 2025471632501
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 14, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Alighting
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 199747SA70615 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 1997.