Serious C road crash in Eastbourne BN21 on 21 January 2012 at 02:50 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on a C road in Eastbourne at 02:50 on Saturday 21 January 2012. The 19-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Jan 2012
- Saturday, 02:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78144, longitude 0.26599, in the BN21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Eastbourne. It is one of the crashes that make up the Old Town, Eastbourne, BN21 1SH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Eastbourne
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012471200359
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 98%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 2%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 May 1995.
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 20 May 1995
20 m awayRef 199547SA50324
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 17 September 1987
20 m awayRef 198747SA70392
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 9 October 2013
32 m awayRef 2013471305328
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 16 October 2001
41 m awayRef 200147S143814
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 1 December 1994
41 m awayRef 199447SA40832
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 31 May 1990
45 m awayRef 199047SA00254
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 19, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 2012471200359 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 2012.