A259 crash in Eastbourne on 16 July 2025 at 14:25 involving a Skoda Kamiq
A Skoda Kamiq hit a pedestrian on the A259 in Eastbourne at 14:25 on Wednesday 16 July 2025. A 24-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jul 2025
- Wednesday, 14:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Skoda Kamiq
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78491, longitude 0.30558, in the BN22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Eastbourne. It is one of the crashes that make up the Devonshire, Eastbourne, BN22 7RP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Eastbourne
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025471617019
- Council area
- Eastbourne
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 259
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 January 2004.
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on the A259 in Eastbourne, 28 January 2004
6 m awayRef 200447K171550
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A259 in Eastbourne, 29 March 1994
6 m awayRef 199447SA40206
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Eastbourne, 27 October 1986
6 m awayRef 198647SA60239
Slight
Volkswagen Crafter crash on the A259 in Eastbourne, 26 January 2012
6 m awayRef 2012471200465
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A259 in Eastbourne, 2 November 2016
8 m awayRef 2016471606581
Serious
Car crash on the A259 in Eastbourne, 28 October 2023
8 m awayRef 2023471368049
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Kamiq
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 24, hit by vehicle 1 (Skoda Kamiq)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least 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 2025471617019 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 2025.