Unclassified road crash in Eastbourne BN20 on 27 February 2022 at 17:51 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne at 17:51 on Sunday 27 February 2022. The 18-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Feb 2022
- Sunday, 17:51
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.73703, longitude 0.24339, in the BN20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Eastbourne
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022471147992
- Council area
- Eastbourne
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 8 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 September 2025.
Serious
Kawasaki crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 9 September 2025
8 m awayRef 2025471639481
Slight
Yamaha MT crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 18 May 2025
37 m awayRef 2025471592052
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Eastbourne, 3 June 1983
39 m awayRef 198347SA30313
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 29 May 2024
39 m awayRef 2024471449647
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 28 November 2017
54 m awayRef 2017471706753
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on a C road in Eastbourne, 29 August 1993
61 m awayRef 199347SA30510
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 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
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,979 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- 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 2022471147992 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 2022.