A259 crash in Hastings on 4 March 2019 at 09:49 involving a Hyundai i30
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Mar 2019
- Monday, 09:49
- Vehicles
- 1
- Hyundai i30
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.85097, longitude 0.53406, in the TN38 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hastings. It is one of the crashes that make up the West St Leonards, Hastings, TN38 0AX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Hastings
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019471901282
- Council area
- Hastings
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- 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
- 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, 3 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 April 1980.
Serious
Car crash on the A259 in Hastings, 29 April 1980
3 m awayRef 198047TA00186
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Hastings, 17 November 1985
3 m awayRef 198547TA50577
Serious
Mercedes 200 crash on the A259 in Hastings, 18 July 1994
3 m awayRef 199447TA40380
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Hastings, 7 June 2018
7 m awayRef 2018471803096
Slight
Suzuki Supercarry crash on the A259 in Hastings, 29 December 1992
9 m awayRef 199247TA20607
Serious
Honda SES125 crash on the A259 in Hastings, 19 July 2015
10 m awayRef 2015471504116
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai i30
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,582 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 57, hit by vehicle 1 (Hyundai i30)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
- 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 2019471901282 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hastings road accident statistics for 2019.