Unclassified road crash in Eastbourne BN20 on 8 December 2017 at 19:20 involving a Skoda Octavia taxi
A Skoda Octavia taxi and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne at 19:20 on Friday 8 December 2017. The 37-year-old male cyclist 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
- 8 Dec 2017
- Friday, 19:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Skoda Octavia and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.76313, longitude 0.27375, in the BN20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Eastbourne. It is one of the crashes that make up the Meads, Eastbourne, BN21 4HL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Eastbourne
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017471707202
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 March 1993.
Slight
Talbot Solara crash on a C road in Eastbourne, 15 March 1993
4 m awayRef 199347SA30129
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Eastbourne, 21 June 1984
4 m awayRef 198447SA40333
Slight
MG MGB crash on a C road in Eastbourne, 29 May 1996
6 m awayRef 199647SA60332
Slight
Mercedes 400 crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 6 April 2002
12 m awayRef 200247S149248
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 23 April 2021
34 m awayRef 2021471038716
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Eastbourne, 19 June 1981
35 m awayRef 198147SA10229
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Octavia
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 37, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2017471707202 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.