Unclassified road crash in Hastings TN34 on 25 November 2021 at 16:23 involving a Ford Transit lorry
A Ford Transit lorry and a Volkswagen T-Roc were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Hastings at 16:23 on Thursday 25 November 2021. The 57-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen T-Roc and a 13-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen T-Roc were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Nov 2021
- Thursday, 16:23
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and Volkswagen T-Roc
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.85455, longitude 0.57947, in the TN34 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hastings. It is one of the crashes that make up the Castle, Hastings, TN34 1NH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021471114281
- Council area
- Hastings
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 27 June 2025.
Slight
Honda FSH125 crash on an unclassified road in Hastings, 27 June 2025
1 m awayRef 2025471615645
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A259 in Hastings, 9 July 2016
4 m awayRef 2016471604103
Slight
Yamaha Jog R crash on the A259 in Hastings, 6 October 2008
6 m awayRef 2008470807656
Serious
Lorry crash on the A259 in Hastings, 2 April 1982
6 m awayRef 198247TA20131
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Hastings, 23 July 1980
6 m awayRef 198047TA00356
Slight
Rover Mini crash on the A259 in Hastings, 20 May 2004
6 m awayRef 200447K175013
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen T-Roc
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen T-Roc)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 13, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen T-Roc)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- 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 2021471114281 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.