Unclassified road crash in Eastbourne BN21 on 23 July 2016 at 22:45 involving a Vauxhall Mokka
A car and a Vauxhall Mokka were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne at 22:45 on Saturday 23 July 2016. The 29-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Mokka 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
- 23 Jul 2016
- Saturday, 22:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Vauxhall Mokka
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.76353, longitude 0.28551, in the BN21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Eastbourne. It is one of the crashes that make up the Meads, Eastbourne, BN21 4HL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Eastbourne
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016471604448
- 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
- Central refuge, no other controls
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, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 4 October 2016.
Serious
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 4 October 2016
4 m awayRef 2016471605966
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 16 October 2009
9 m awayRef 2009470907688
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 8 August 2003
11 m awayRef 200347K165824
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Eastbourne, 23 November 2011
12 m awayRef 2011471107398
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 16 July 1980
16 m awayRef 198047SA00305
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 14 March 1991
16 m awayRef 199147SA10009
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Mokka
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Mokka)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most 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 2016471604448 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.