Unclassified road crash in Eastbourne BN22 on 29 August 2017 at 16:19 involving a Ford Fiesta
A motorcycle and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne at 16:19 on Tuesday 29 August 2017. The 18-year-old male rider of the motorcycle 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
- 29 Aug 2017
- Tuesday, 16:19
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.77518, longitude 0.29874, 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 8JF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Eastbourne
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017471704880
- Council area
- Eastbourne
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 2013.
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Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 22 November 1997
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 24 August 1980
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Subaru Subaru crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 9 May 1991
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- 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 2017471704880 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.