Unclassified road crash in Eastbourne BN23 on 3 December 2022 at 16:00 involving a Citroen C1
A Citroen C1 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Eastbourne at 16:00 on Saturday 3 December 2022. A 2-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Dec 2022
- Saturday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen C1
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.80805, longitude 0.29129, in the BN23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Eastbourne. It is one of the crashes that make up the Langney, Eastbourne, BN23 8FE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Eastbourne
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022471249543
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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, 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, 15 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 5 May 1989.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 5 May 1989
15 m awayRef 198947SA90199
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 1 June 1987
24 m awayRef 198747SA70196
Serious
Volvo S40 crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 20 January 2009
37 m awayRef 2009470900519
Serious
Citroen C3 crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 15 June 2010
56 m awayRef 2010471003879
Slight
Mercedes Cla Class crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 9 March 2025
73 m awayRef 2025471563039
Slight
Austin Allegro crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 1 August 1991
75 m awayRef 199147SA10324
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 2, hit by vehicle 1 (Citroen C1)
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- 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 2022471249543 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.