A2101 crash in Hastings on 2 March 2007 at 16:00 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A Yamaha motorcycle and a Citroen Xsara were involved in a crash on the A2101 in Hastings at 16:00 on Friday 2 March 2007. The 40-year-old male rider of the Yamaha motorcycle and a 39-year-old female passenger in the Citroen Xsara were 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
- 2 Mar 2007
- Friday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha and Citroen Xsara
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.87535, longitude 0.56111, in the TN34 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hastings. It is one of the crashes that make up the Silverhill, Hastings, TN37 7AG area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007470701925
- Council area
- Hastings
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2101
- 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
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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 12 August 2009.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A2101 in Hastings, 12 August 2009
At the same spotRef 2009470905897
Serious
Suzuki crash on the A2101 in Hastings, 14 February 1998
At the same spotRef 199847TA80067
Slight
Vauxhall Agila crash on the A2101 in Hastings, 16 June 2014
4 m awayRef 2014471403341
Slight
Renault Safrane crash on the A2101 in Hastings, 3 January 2001
10 m awayRef 200147T131537
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A2101 in Hastings, 12 March 2012
10 m awayRef 2012471201312
Slight
Car crash on the A2101 in Hastings, 18 May 1988
10 m awayRef 198847TA80227
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen Xsara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 40, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen Xsara)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 2007470701925 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hastings road accident statistics for 2007.