Unclassified road crash in Eastbourne BN21 on 9 December 2017 at 19:40 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Eastbourne at 19:40 on Saturday 9 December 2017. A 48-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Dec 2017
- Saturday, 19:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.76497, longitude 0.28527, 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
- 2017471707038
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 September 1984.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 20 September 1984
9 m awayRef 198447SA40489
Slight
Vauxhall Mokka crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 3 December 2020
14 m awayRef 2020471007707
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 19 November 1991
19 m awayRef 199147SA10495
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 18 August 2024
30 m awayRef 2024471481087
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 2 June 1990
37 m awayRef 199047SA00260
Slight
Suzuki Splash crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 21 April 2016
38 m awayRef 2016471602385
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- Yes
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 48, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- 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 2017471707038 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.