Unclassified road crash in Hastings TN37 on 26 December 2025 at 21:22 involving a Hyundai i30
A Hyundai i30 and a Piaggio Vespa motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Hastings at 21:22 on Friday 26 December 2025. The 55-year-old male rider of the Piaggio Vespa motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Dec 2025
- Friday, 21:22
- Vehicles
- 2
- Hyundai i30 and Piaggio Vespa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.86082, longitude 0.56195, in the TN37 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hastings. It is one of the crashes that make up the Gensing, Hastings, TN37 6AU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Hastings
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025471688198
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 21
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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 February 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A21 in Hastings, 26 February 1983
2 m awayRef 198347TA30078
Slight
Car crash on the A21 in Hastings, 27 June 1985
2 m awayRef 198547TA50272
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A21 in Hastings, 11 August 1990
2 m awayRef 199047TA00445
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A21 in Hastings, 19 December 2004
2 m awayRef 200447K182133
Slight
Car crash on the A21 in Hastings, 2 May 1988
2 m awayRef 198847TA80219
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A21 in Hastings, 8 February 2004
2 m awayRef 200447K171806
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai i30
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Piaggio Vespa
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 55, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Piaggio Vespa)
- 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 2025471688198 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.