Unclassified road crash in Eastbourne BN22 on 4 June 2017 at 19:00 involving a Mazda 5
A Mazda 5 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Eastbourne at 19:00 on Sunday 4 June 2017. A 13-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 4 Jun 2017
- Sunday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda 5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.77883, longitude 0.29948, in the BN22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Eastbourne. It is one of the crashes that make up the Devonshire, Eastbourne, BN22 7RP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Eastbourne
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017471703073
- Council area
- Eastbourne
- 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
- 259
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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 February 2007.
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Eastbourne, 26 February 2007
5 m awayRef 2007470701779
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A259 in Eastbourne, 16 October 1991
5 m awayRef 199147SA10435
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A259 in Eastbourne, 25 February 1998
5 m awayRef 199847SA80163
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A259 in Eastbourne, 19 July 1996
5 m awayRef 199647SA60480
Serious
Yamaha YZF R1 crash on the A259 in Eastbourne, 4 July 2014
9 m awayRef 2014471403764
Serious
Ford Transit Custom crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 18 July 2022
10 m awayRef 2022471199993
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Mazda 5)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2017471703073 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 2017.