C road crash in Eastbourne BN20 on 4 November 2009 at 13:21 involving a Volkswagen Transporter van
A Volkswagen Transporter van hit a pedestrian on a C road in Eastbourne at 13:21 on Wednesday 4 November 2009. A 22-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Nov 2009
- Wednesday, 13:21
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Transporter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.76137, longitude 0.27126, in the BN20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Eastbourne. It is one of the crashes that make up the Meads, Eastbourne, BN21 4HL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Eastbourne
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009470908536
- Council area
- Eastbourne
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 December 2014.
Slight
Transbus Int crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 13 December 2014
15 m awayRef 2014471407353
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 14 November 1984
22 m awayRef 198447SA40600
Slight
Leyland National crash on a C road in Eastbourne, 24 August 1994
32 m awayRef 199447SA40559
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Eastbourne, 28 July 1980
40 m awayRef 198047SA00343
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Eastbourne, 11 October 1996
40 m awayRef 199647SA60725
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Eastbourne, 12 April 2010
40 m awayRef 2010471002333
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Transporter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,460 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 22, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Transporter)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 2009470908536 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 2009.