A259 crash in Eastbourne on 4 December 2018 at 08:40 involving a BMW 1 Series
A BMW 1 Series and a Vauxhall Vivaro van were involved in a crash on the A259 in Eastbourne at 08:40 on Tuesday 4 December 2018. The 48-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Vivaro van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Dec 2018
- Tuesday, 08:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 1 Series and Vauxhall Vivaro
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.7891, longitude 0.30996, in the BN23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Eastbourne. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sovereign, Eastbourne, BN23 6HU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Eastbourne
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018471806696
- Council area
- Eastbourne
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 259
- 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
- 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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 7 November 1998.
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the A259 in Eastbourne, 7 November 1998
10 m awayRef 199847S001655
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Eastbourne, 7 April 1982
10 m awayRef 198247SA20196
Slight
Rover 25 crash on the A259 in Eastbourne, 11 April 2005
10 m awayRef 2005470502722
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the A259 in Eastbourne, 5 October 1990
10 m awayRef 199047SA00490
Serious
Car crash on the A259 in Eastbourne, 1 December 1989
13 m awayRef 198947SA90615
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A259 in Eastbourne, 23 April 2021
19 m awayRef 2021471038569
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Vivaro
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Vivaro)
- 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 2018471806696 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.