Unclassified road crash in Eastbourne BN21 on 24 January 2016 at 13:56 involving a Renault
A Renault and a Vauxhall Agila were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne at 13:56 on Sunday 24 January 2016. The 25-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Agila was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jan 2016
- Sunday, 13:56
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault and Vauxhall Agila
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.76584, longitude 0.28868, 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
- 2016471600545
- Council area
- Eastbourne
- 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
- 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
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 January 2014.
Slight
Subaru Legacy crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 25 January 2014
2 m awayRef 2014471400461
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 1 June 1984
6 m awayRef 198447SA40299
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 27 July 1986
6 m awayRef 198647SA60157
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 14 December 2015
7 m awayRef 2015471507444
Serious
Volkswagen Passat crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 12 April 2016
8 m awayRef 2016471602118
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B2136 in Eastbourne, 5 September 2006
14 m awayRef 2006470607339
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Agila
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
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Agila)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
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 2016471600545 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 2016.