A259 crash in Eastbourne on 26 February 2007 at 10:55 involving a car
A car crashed on the A259 in Eastbourne at 10:55 on Monday 26 February 2007. An 84-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Feb 2007
- Monday, 10:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.77881, longitude 0.29948, in the BN22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Eastbourne. It is one of the crashes that make up the Devonshire, Eastbourne, BN22 7RP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Eastbourne
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007470701779
- Council area
- Eastbourne
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 259
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 June 2017.
Slight
Mazda 5 crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 4 June 2017
5 m awayRef 2017471703073
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A259 in Eastbourne, 19 July 1996
10 m awayRef 199647SA60480
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Eastbourne, 19 January 1989
10 m awayRef 198947SA90024
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Eastbourne, 27 June 1986
10 m awayRef 198647SA60124
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A259 in Eastbourne, 25 February 1998
10 m awayRef 199847SA80163
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A259 in Eastbourne, 16 October 1991
10 m awayRef 199147SA10435
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 76 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 84, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 2007470701779 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 2007.