Unclassified road crash in Eastbourne BN21 on 9 October 2013 at 18:08 involving a Nissan Note
A Nissan Note and a Skoda Fabia were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne at 18:08 on Wednesday 9 October 2013. The 81-year-old male driver of the Nissan Note was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Oct 2013
- Wednesday, 18:08
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Note and Skoda Fabia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.7753, longitude 0.25967, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013471305465
- 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
- Unclassified
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, 6 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 February 1982.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 8 February 1982
6 m awayRef 198247SA20071
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 12 December 2000
8 m awayRef 200047S131218
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 30 March 1986
8 m awayRef 198647SA60062
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 21 May 1979
8 m awayRef 197947SA90215
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 1 August 1979
8 m awayRef 197947SA90373
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 6 September 1982
8 m awayRef 198247SA20593
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Note
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 81 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Skoda Fabia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 81, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Note)
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 2013471305465 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 2013.