Unclassified road crash in Eastbourne BN21 on 9 December 2017 at 03:45 involving a Volvo V40
A Volvo V40 crashed on an unclassified road in Eastbourne at 03:45 on Saturday 9 December 2017. The 23-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Dec 2017
- Saturday, 03:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo V40
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.77318, longitude 0.28647, in the BN21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Eastbourne. It is one of the crashes that make up the Devonshire, Eastbourne, BN21 3RG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Eastbourne
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017471706996
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
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, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 September 2000.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 20 September 2000
12 m awayRef 200047S126876
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 19 August 2020
15 m awayRef 2020470973934
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 13 December 1989
16 m awayRef 198947SA90592
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 4 May 1985
43 m awayRef 198547SA50158
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 21 July 1980
45 m awayRef 198047SA00318
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A2040 in Eastbourne, 18 November 1993
47 m awayRef 199347SA30680
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo V40
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo V40)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2017471706996 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.