C road crash in Brighton and Hove BN2 on 22 February 1987 at 01:05 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Brighton and Hove at 01:05 on Sunday 22 February 1987. The 37-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Feb 1987
- Sunday, 01:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.83171, longitude -0.13081, 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
- 198747CA70132
- Council area
- Brighton and Hove
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 27
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 January 1992.
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Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Brighton and Hove, 15 December 2005
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Scania crash on an unclassified road in Brighton and Hove, 10 April 2002
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Dennis crash on a C road in Brighton and Hove, 21 January 1999
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Serious
Bus crash on a C road in Brighton and Hove, 27 January 1987
10 m awayRef 198747CA70055
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198747CA70132 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 1987.