Unclassified road crash in Eastbourne BN21 on 31 December 2012 at 21:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Eastbourne at 21:00 on Monday 31 December 2012. A 20-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2012
- Monday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.7762, longitude 0.28119, 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, BN22 8JF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Eastbourne
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012471300047
- 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
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 December 1998.
Slight
Mercedes 190 crash on the A2021 in Eastbourne, 3 December 1998
30 m awayRef 199847S001927
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A2021 in Eastbourne, 21 October 1999
32 m awayRef 199947S003863
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on the A2021 in Eastbourne, 24 July 1995
36 m awayRef 199547SA50595
Serious
Car crash on the A2021 in Eastbourne, 30 July 2006
40 m awayRef 2006470606250
Serious
Peugeot 406 crash on the A2021 in Eastbourne, 2 June 2010
40 m awayRef 2010471003534
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 5 April 2000
41 m awayRef 200047S004865
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 20, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 2012471300047 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.