Serious unclassified road crash in Eastbourne BN23 on 27 November 2012 at 07:10 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne at 07:10 on Tuesday 27 November 2012. The 24-year-old male driver of the car was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Nov 2012
- Tuesday, 07:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.8067, longitude 0.31235, in the BN23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Eastbourne. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Anthony's, Eastbourne, BN23 7NP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Eastbourne
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012471206290
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 2191
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 97%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 3%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 March 2005.
Slight
Vauxhall Movano crash on the B2191 in Eastbourne, 1 March 2005
At the same spotRef 2005470501354
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the B2191 in Eastbourne, 24 July 1994
20 m awayRef 199447SA40470
Slight
Car crash on the B2191 in Eastbourne, 16 October 2000
20 m awayRef 200047S128351
Serious
Car crash on the B2191 in Eastbourne, 8 December 1980
40 m awayRef 198047SA00563
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B2191 in Eastbourne, 10 August 1998
67 m awayRef 199847S000990
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 16 June 2008
67 m awayRef 2008470804659
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2012471206290 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.