A21 crash in Hastings on 28 October 2014 at 09:00 involving a Nissan Micra
A Nissan Micra and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on the A21 in Hastings at 09:00 on Tuesday 28 October 2014. The 24-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit van 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
- 28 Oct 2014
- Tuesday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Micra and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.89278, longitude 0.5563, in the TN37 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ashdown, Hastings, TN37 7PB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Hastings
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014471406638
- Council area
- Hastings
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 21
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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, 8 metres away, was a fatal crash on 2 May 2005.
Fatal
Honda CBR900RR crash on the A21 in Hastings, 2 May 2005
8 m awayRef 2005470503287
Serious
Peugeot 306 crash on the A21 in Hastings, 19 February 2022
11 m awayRef 2022471145283
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A21 in Hastings, 23 September 2009
15 m awayRef 2009470907038
Slight
Daihatsu Domino crash on the A21 in Hastings, 7 July 1996
17 m awayRef 199647TA60380
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A21 in Hastings, 13 December 2025
25 m awayRef 2025471682713
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A21 in Hastings, 7 May 2012
36 m awayRef 2012471202333
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,240 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit)
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 2014471406638 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hastings road accident statistics for 2014.