Skip to main content
CrashStats

Unclassified road crash in Hastings TN37 on 14 May 2017 at 12:35 involving a Renault Megane

A Renault Megane and a Skoda Fabia were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Hastings at 12:35 on Sunday 14 May 2017. The 29-year-old male driver of the Skoda Fabia and a 22-year-old female passenger in the Skoda Fabia were 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
14 May 2017
Sunday, 12:35
Vehicles
2
Renault Megane and Skoda Fabia
Casualties
2
2 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.89001, longitude 0.5541, in the TN37 postcode district. 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

Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.

  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
2017471702850
Council area
Hastings
Police force
Sussex
Police attended the scene
No
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
A
Second road number
2100

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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 June 1989.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Renault Megane

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Waiting to turn left
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    East
    Position at junction
    Entering main road
    First point of impact
    Front
    Left-hand drive
    No
    Driver sex
    Male
    Engine capacity
    1,998 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    6 years
    Driver home area deprivation
    20 to 30% least deprived

  • Vehicle 2: Skoda Fabia

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Waiting to turn right
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    East
    Position at junction
    Entering main road
    First point of impact
    Back
    Left-hand drive
    No
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    29 years
    Engine capacity
    1,896 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    12 years
    Driver home area deprivation
    40 to 50% most deprived

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Skoda Fabia)

    Home area deprivation
    40 to 50% most deprived

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Skoda Fabia)

    Car passenger
    Rear seat passenger
    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 2017471702850 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 2017.