A2021 crash in Eastbourne on 5 July 2018 at 02:02 involving a Mercedes A Class
A Mercedes A Class hit a pedestrian on the A2021 in Eastbourne at 02:02 on Thursday 5 July 2018. A 19-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jul 2018
- Thursday, 02:02
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes A Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.7856, longitude 0.26761, in the BN21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Eastbourne. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ratton, Eastbourne, BN21 2TT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Eastbourne
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018471803742
- Council area
- Eastbourne
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2021
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 22 January 2006.
Slight
Citroen C5 crash on the A2021 in Eastbourne, 22 January 2006
1 m awayRef 2006470600645
Serious
Bus crash on the A2021 in Eastbourne, 15 December 2021
7 m awayRef 2021471124381
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the A2021 in Eastbourne, 2 November 2018
10 m awayRef 2018471806058
Serious
Dennis crash on the A2021 in Eastbourne, 29 April 1999
10 m awayRef 199947S002903
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A2021 in Eastbourne, 12 May 2017
11 m awayRef 2017471702625
Serious
Ford C-Max crash on the A2021 in Eastbourne, 12 August 2025
12 m awayRef 2025471628120
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes A Class)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2018471803742 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 2018.