A259 crash in Eastbourne on 15 May 1998 at 22:02 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on the A259 in Eastbourne at 22:02 on Friday 15 May 1998. The 18-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 May 1998
- Friday, 22:02
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.76691, longitude 0.28142, 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
- 199847S000348
- 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
- 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
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The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 April 2002.
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Ford Fiesta crash on the A259 in Eastbourne, 27 May 2015
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Serious
Car crash on the A259 in Eastbourne, 26 October 1985
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Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Eastbourne, 26 February 1980
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,296 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
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 199847S000348 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 1998.