Unclassified road crash in Eastbourne BN23 on 21 July 2017 at 18:15 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Peugeot 108 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne at 18:15 on Friday 21 July 2017. The 52-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 108 and a 49-year-old female passenger in the Peugeot 108 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jul 2017
- Friday, 18:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Peugeot 108
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78289, longitude 0.31383, in the BN23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Eastbourne. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sovereign, Eastbourne, BN23 6DN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Eastbourne
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017471704116
- 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
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 August 1994.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 11 August 1994
4 m awayRef 199447SA40576
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 12 July 2012
7 m awayRef 2012471203536
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 11 April 2020
8 m awayRef 2020470945524
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 14 July 1996
14 m awayRef 199647SA60473
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 21 April 2005
14 m awayRef 2005470502988
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 9 September 2020
19 m awayRef 2020470979279
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 108
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 108)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 108)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- 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 2017471704116 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.