Unclassified road crash in Eastbourne BN25 on 24 April 2002 at 19:30 involving a Fiat Uno
A Fiat Uno and a Suzuki SJ were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne at 19:30 on Wednesday 24 April 2002. A 42-year-old female passenger in the Suzuki SJ was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Apr 2002
- Wednesday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Uno and Suzuki SJ
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.77533, longitude 0.11746, in the BN25 postcode district and within the built-up area of Seaford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Seaford East, Lewes, BN25 4EZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200247K149488
- Council area
- Eastbourne
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 January 1994.
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A259 in Lewes, 14 January 1994
At the same spotRef 199447SA40063
Serious
Car crash on the A259 in Lewes, 7 September 1986
At the same spotRef 198647CA60908
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A259 in Lewes, 20 October 2022
4 m awayRef 2022471232766
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A259 in Lewes, 28 September 2018
5 m awayRef 2018471805382
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A259 in Lewes, 31 March 1991
10 m awayRef 199147LA10122
Serious
Toyota Corolla crash on the A259 in Lewes, 18 September 2006
10 m awayRef 2006470607770
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Uno
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki SJ
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 970 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Suzuki SJ)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 200247K149488 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 2002.