B2137 crash in Brighton and Hove on 27 December 1985 at 09:05 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B2137 in Brighton and Hove at 09:05 on Friday 27 December 1985. An 80-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 1985
- Friday, 09:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81739, longitude -0.10668, 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
- 198547CA51416
- Council area
- Brighton and Hove
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2137
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 2118
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 November 1998.
Slight
Car crash on the B2118 in Brighton and Hove, 11 November 1998
At the same spotRef 199847C002441
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B2137 in Brighton and Hove, 27 July 1991
At the same spotRef 199147CA10490
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B2137 in Brighton and Hove, 19 January 1991
At the same spotRef 199147CA10038
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B2137 in Brighton and Hove, 2 May 1983
At the same spotRef 198347CA30411
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B2137 in Brighton and Hove, 10 September 1994
At the same spotRef 199447CA40720
Serious
Seat Ibiza crash on an unclassified road in Brighton and Hove, 17 December 2004
At the same spotRef 200447K181905
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 80, 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 198547CA51416 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.