A21 crash in Hastings on 8 October 2016 at 11:50 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto and a Chrysler Voyager were involved in a crash on the A21 in Hastings at 11:50 on Saturday 8 October 2016. The 36-year-old male driver of the Chrysler Voyager was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Oct 2016
- Saturday, 11:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Punto and Chrysler Voyager
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.88693, longitude 0.55126, in the TN37 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016471606120
- Council area
- Hastings
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 21
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 30 November 2016.
Serious
Longjia LJ crash on the A21 in Hastings, 30 November 2016
2 m awayRef 2016471607220
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A21 in Hastings, 2 March 2002
5 m awayRef 200247T147838
Slight
Leyland DAF 200 crash on the A2100 in Hastings, 18 October 2000
5 m awayRef 200047T128009
Slight
Yamaha YQ 50 Aerox crash on the A21 in Hastings, 15 February 2008
7 m awayRef 2008470801300
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A21 in Hastings, 27 March 2016
7 m awayRef 2016471601801
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A21 in Hastings, 3 March 2009
8 m awayRef 2009470901599
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Chrysler Voyager
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,301 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Chrysler Voyager)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2016471606120 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 2016.