B2104 crash in Eastbourne on 5 December 2014 at 17:30 involving a Mini Cooper
A lorry and a Mini Cooper were involved in a crash on the B2104 in Eastbourne at 17:30 on Friday 5 December 2014. The 25-year-old female driver of the Mini Cooper was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Dec 2014
- Friday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and Mini Cooper
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79842, longitude 0.31148, in the BN23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Eastbourne. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sovereign, Eastbourne, BN23 6HU area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014471407205
- Council area
- Eastbourne
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2104
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 3 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 3 March 2013.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B2104 in Eastbourne, 3 March 2013
3 m awayRef 2013471301147
Slight
Car crash on the B2104 in Eastbourne, 17 August 1980
4 m awayRef 198047SA00374
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B2104 in Eastbourne, 19 June 1981
4 m awayRef 198147SA10232
Slight
Car crash on the B2104 in Eastbourne, 21 July 1988
4 m awayRef 198847SA80290
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the B2104 in Eastbourne, 7 April 1997
4 m awayRef 199747SA70243
Slight
Honda NH80MD crash on the B2104 in Eastbourne, 19 May 1996
4 m awayRef 199647SA60301
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mini Cooper)
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 2014471407205 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.