Unclassified road crash in Eastbourne BN21 on 14 November 2011 at 12:42 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Eastbourne at 12:42 on Monday 14 November 2011. A 65-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 14 Nov 2011
- Monday, 12:42
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.7687, longitude 0.28281, in the BN21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Eastbourne. It is one of the crashes that make up the Devonshire, Eastbourne, BN21 3RG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Eastbourne
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011471107215
- Council area
- Eastbourne
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 April 1983.
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 29 April 1983
At the same spotRef 198347SA30225
Slight
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 30 October 1996
At the same spotRef 199647SA60780
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 28 August 1981
At the same spotRef 198147SA10350
Slight
Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 21 December 2004
10 m awayRef 200447K182205
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 2 September 2008
10 m awayRef 2008470806756
Slight
Bus crash on the A259 in Eastbourne, 14 June 1979
10 m awayRef 197947SA90264
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Bus stop or bus shelter
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 8,268 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 65, hit by vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
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 2011471107215 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 2011.