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B2123 crash in Brighton and Hove on 29 November 1985 at 18:00 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the B2123 in Brighton and Hove at 18:00 on Friday 29 November 1985. A 9-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit.

Severity
Slight
Date
29 Nov 1985
Friday, 18:00
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.80669, longitude -0.05814, in the BN2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brighton and Hove.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198547CA51300
Council area
Brighton and Hove
Police force
Sussex

Road and location details

First road class
B
First road number
2123
Road type
One way street or slip road
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 37 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 June 2014.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    20 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    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 198547CA51300 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 1985.