Serious unclassified road crash in Hastings TN38 on 10 July 2015 at 16:03 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on an unclassified road in Hastings at 16:03 on Friday 10 July 2015. The 52-year-old male cyclist was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Jul 2015
- Friday, 16:03
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.88349, longitude 0.54564, in the TN38 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hastings. 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015471503950
- Council area
- Hastings
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 2159
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
- 97%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 3%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 21 January 2005.
Serious
Vauxhall Movano crash on the B2159 in Hastings, 21 January 2005
7 m awayRef 2005470500372
Slight
Piaggio NRG crash on the B2159 in Hastings, 17 June 2008
7 m awayRef 2008470804694
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the B2159 in Hastings, 1 December 2016
8 m awayRef 2016471607248
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B2159 in Hastings, 11 June 2014
9 m awayRef 2014471403287
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B2159 in Hastings, 9 February 2025
10 m awayRef 2025471557082
Serious
Car crash on the B2159 in Hastings, 12 December 1982
12 m awayRef 198247TA20645
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North 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
- 52 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 52, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 2015471503950 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 2015.