Serious unclassified road crash in Hastings TN38 on 2 June 2025 at 15:33 involving a Vauxhall Meriva
A Vauxhall Meriva hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Hastings at 15:33 on Monday 2 June 2025. A 14-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Jun 2025
- Monday, 15:33
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Meriva
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.86361, longitude 0.55135, in the TN38 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hastings. It is one of the crashes that make up the Maze Hill, Hastings, TN38 0SJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025471597697
- 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
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 September 1989.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Hastings, 28 September 1989
3 m awayRef 198947TA90515
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Hastings, 17 February 1989
3 m awayRef 198947TA90088
Serious
Ford P100 crash on a C road in Hastings, 7 July 1997
3 m awayRef 199747TA70322
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Hastings, 22 May 1982
3 m awayRef 198247TA20206
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Hastings, 31 July 1987
3 m awayRef 198747TA70345
Slight
Volkswagen Tiguan crash on an unclassified road in Hastings, 25 September 2023
5 m awayRef 2023471356007
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Meriva
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South 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
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 78 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Meriva)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2025471597697 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 2025.