Unclassified road crash in Eastbourne BN21 on 28 March 2019 at 18:57 involving a Scania bus
A Scania bus crashed on an unclassified road in Eastbourne at 18:57 on Thursday 28 March 2019. A 30-year-old female passenger 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
- 28 Mar 2019
- Thursday, 18:57
- Vehicles
- 1
- Scania
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.76915, longitude 0.28156, 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
- 2019471901673
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 259
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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 13 January 1990.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A259 in Eastbourne, 13 January 1990
At the same spotRef 199047SA00012
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Eastbourne, 9 November 2009
At the same spotRef 2009470908424
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Eastbourne, 4 July 1983
At the same spotRef 198347SA30405
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A259 in Eastbourne, 3 December 1993
At the same spotRef 199347SA30717
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A259 in Eastbourne, 7 June 2004
At the same spotRef 200447K175531
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A259 in Eastbourne, 24 February 1996
At the same spotRef 199647SA60127
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Scania
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 30, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Scania)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
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 2019471901673 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 2019.