A259 crash in Hastings on 12 September 2021 at 16:30 involving a Honda CBR motorcycle
A Honda CBR motorcycle and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A259 in Hastings at 16:30 on Sunday 12 September 2021. A 17-year-old female passenger on the Honda CBR motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Sep 2021
- Sunday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda CBR and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.85595, longitude 0.59069, in the TN34 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hastings. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tressell, Hastings, TN34 3BF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Hastings
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021471087246
- Council area
- Hastings
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
- 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
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 27 May 2017.
Serious
Car crash on the A259 in Hastings, 27 May 2017
2 m awayRef 2017471702955
Serious
Mercedes ML Class crash on the A259 in Hastings, 27 May 2016
3 m awayRef 2016471603154
Serious
Minibus crash on the A259 in Hastings, 26 February 1989
3 m awayRef 198947TA90100
Slight
Vespa (Douglas) crash on the A259 in Hastings, 12 July 1993
3 m awayRef 199347TA30300
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A259 in Hastings, 18 February 1998
3 m awayRef 199847TA80068
Slight
Honda NS125R crash on the A259 in Hastings, 23 December 1990
3 m awayRef 199047TA00713
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda CBR
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 471 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda CBR)
- 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 2021471087246 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 2021.