Serious unclassified road crash in Eastbourne BN21 on 18 July 2025 at 08:00 involving an Audi Q3
A motorcycle and an Audi Q3 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne at 08:00 on Friday 18 July 2025. A 15-year-old female passenger on the motorcycle was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Jul 2025
- Friday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Audi Q3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.76861, longitude 0.28373, in the BN21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Eastbourne. It is one of the crashes that make up the Devonshire, Eastbourne, BN21 3RG area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025471617985
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- 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
- Serious injury band
- Less 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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 February 1995.
Slight
Leyland crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 9 February 1995
8 m awayRef 199547SA50090
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 16 December 1982
8 m awayRef 198247SA20893
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 30 May 2025
10 m awayRef 2025471600935
Slight
Scania crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 10 February 2014
12 m awayRef 2014471400795
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 11 January 2024
13 m awayRef 2024471397524
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Eastbourne, 14 December 1981
14 m awayRef 198147SA10529
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Audi Q3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 15, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 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 2025471617985 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.