A2290 crash in Eastbourne on 19 December 2016 at 08:28 involving a Toyota Yaris
A Toyota Yaris and a Mazda 2 were involved in a crash on the A2290 in Eastbourne at 08:28 on Monday 19 December 2016. The 32-year-old female driver of the Mazda 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 2016
- Monday, 08:28
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Yaris and Mazda 2
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.7927, longitude 0.29179, in the BN23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Eastbourne
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016471607703
- Council area
- Eastbourne
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2290
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 January 2016.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A2290 in Eastbourne, 20 January 2016
15 m awayRef 2016471600445
Slight
Vauxhall Astravan crash on the A2290 in Eastbourne, 10 January 2014
19 m awayRef 2014471400139
Slight
Kia Ceed crash on the A2290 in Eastbourne, 14 October 2016
30 m awayRef 2016471606171
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 29 January 1987
30 m awayRef 198747SA70033
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 12 December 1990
38 m awayRef 199047SA00598
Fatal
Car crash on the A2290 in Eastbourne, 20 July 2007
41 m awayRef 2007470706021
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,329 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Mazda 2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,349 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mazda 2)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2016471607703 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.