Unclassified road crash in Hastings TN38 on 20 September 2008 at 17:30 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series and a Vauxhall Astravan were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Hastings at 17:30 on Saturday 20 September 2008. The 29-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astravan was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Sep 2008
- Saturday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 200 Series and Vauxhall Astravan
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.89058, longitude 0.53919, in the TN38 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hastings.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008470807227
- Council area
- Hastings
- 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
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 July 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the B2159 in Hastings, 19 July 1986
100 m awayRef 198647TA60281
Serious
Yamaha crash on the B2159 in Hastings, 13 May 2000
103 m awayRef 200047T004297
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B2159 in Hastings, 13 November 1979
110 m awayRef 197947TA90540
Slight
Vauxhall Calibra crash on the B2159 in Hastings, 21 April 1996
114 m awayRef 199647TA60207
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on the B2159 in Hastings, 27 June 2023
132 m awayRef 2023471323376
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B2159 in Hastings, 22 September 1979
139 m awayRef 197947TA90459
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astravan
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astravan)
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 2008470807227 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 2008.