Unclassified road crash in Eastbourne BN21 on 30 December 2011 at 17:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Eastbourne at 17:30 on Friday 30 December 2011. A 48-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Dec 2011
- Friday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78048, longitude 0.2736, in the BN21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Eastbourne. It is one of the crashes that make up the Upperton, Eastbourne, BN21 2JJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Eastbourne
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011471200039
- Council area
- Eastbourne
- 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
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 2021
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 September 1998.
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A2021 in Eastbourne, 17 September 1998
10 m awayRef 199847S001286
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A2021 in Eastbourne, 2 July 2014
11 m awayRef 2014471403743
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A2021 in Eastbourne, 27 November 1992
14 m awayRef 199247SA20503
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the A2021 in Eastbourne, 1 May 2006
14 m awayRef 2006470603529
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A2021 in Eastbourne, 13 October 2025
16 m awayRef 2025471654010
Slight
Car crash on the A2021 in Eastbourne, 30 January 1983
20 m awayRef 198347SA30052
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 48, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2011471200039 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.