Unclassified road crash in Eastbourne BN22 on 16 December 2014 at 08:00 involving a Yamaha YZF R125 motorcycle
A car and a Yamaha YZF R125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne at 08:00 on Tuesday 16 December 2014. The 31-year-old male rider of the Yamaha YZF R125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 2014
- Tuesday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Yamaha YZF R125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79521, longitude 0.26688, in the BN22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Eastbourne. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ratton, Eastbourne, BN21 2TT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Eastbourne
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014471407454
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- 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, 29 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 November 1981.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 28 November 1981
29 m awayRef 198147SA10515
Slight
Austin Montego crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 15 November 1990
49 m awayRef 199047SA00577
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 23 September 1997
50 m awayRef 199747SA70658
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 16 June 1985
63 m awayRef 198547SA50199
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 29 November 2004
63 m awayRef 200447K181992
Serious
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 6 July 1981
70 m awayRef 198147SA10257
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- Yes
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 70 years
Vehicle 2: Yamaha YZF R125
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 31, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha YZF R125)
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 2014471407454 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.