Unclassified road crash in Hastings TN35 on 12 September 2024 at 08:30 involving an MG 5
An MG 5 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Hastings at 08:30 on Thursday 12 September 2024. A 5-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 12 Sep 2024
- Thursday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- MG 5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.86357, longitude 0.60197, in the TN35 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hastings.
Map of where the crash happened in Hastings
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024471492945
- Council area
- Hastings
- 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
- 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, 18 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 1979.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Hastings, 17 December 1979
18 m awayRef 197947TA90599
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Hastings, 24 April 1997
18 m awayRef 199747TA70254
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Hastings, 22 January 1988
18 m awayRef 198847TA80039
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in Hastings, 4 April 2003
24 m awayRef 200347K161564
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Hastings, 21 November 1997
26 m awayRef 199747TA70616
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Hastings, 27 February 2007
28 m awayRef 2007470701892
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: MG 5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Electric
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 5, hit by vehicle 1 (MG 5)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2024471492945 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 2024.