B2120 crash in Brighton and Hove on 18 May 1983 at 07:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B2120 in Brighton and Hove at 07:30 on Wednesday 18 May 1983. A 19-year-old female 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
- 18 May 1983
- Wednesday, 07:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.83082, longitude -0.14788, in the BN1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brighton and Hove.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198347CA30468
- Council area
- Brighton and Hove
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2120
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 2010
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 December 1999.
Slight
Gilera Stalker crash on the A2010 in Brighton and Hove, 16 December 1999
At the same spotRef 199947C005925
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the B2120 in Brighton and Hove, 4 May 1991
At the same spotRef 199147CA10287
Slight
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Slight
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Serious
Car crash on the B2120 in Brighton and Hove, 13 October 2014
8 m awayRef 2014471406017
Slight
Car crash on the B2120 in Brighton and Hove, 4 October 1985
10 m awayRef 198547CA51024
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 198347CA30468 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Brighton and Hove road accident statistics for 1983.