Unclassified road crash in Eastbourne BN21 on 10 February 2014 at 11:15 involving a Scania bus
A Scania bus crashed on an unclassified road in Eastbourne at 11:15 on Monday 10 February 2014. A 67-year-old male passenger 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
- 10 Feb 2014
- Monday, 11:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Scania
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.76843, longitude 0.28379, 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, BN21 3RG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Eastbourne
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014471400795
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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, 2 metres away, was a fatal crash on 20 March 1980.
Fatal
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 20 March 1980
2 m awayRef 198047SA00117
Slight
Optare Excel crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 25 March 2003
2 m awayRef 200347K161274
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 9 July 1990
2 m awayRef 199047SA00349
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 2 May 1980
2 m awayRef 198047SA00179
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 3 December 1996
2 m awayRef 199647SA60921
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 14 December 1981
2 m awayRef 198147SA10529
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Scania
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 67, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Scania)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Standing passenger
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 2014471400795 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 2014.