A259 crash in Brighton and Hove on 7 November 1989 at 01:30 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A259 in Brighton and Hove at 01:30 on Tuesday 7 November 1989. The 18-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Nov 1989
- Tuesday, 01:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.80343, longitude -0.05643, 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
- 198947CA90923
- Council area
- Brighton and Hove
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 259
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 May 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Brighton and Hove, 21 May 1983
10 m awayRef 198347CA30501
Fatal
Volvo 760 crash on the A259 in Brighton and Hove, 20 May 2005
14 m awayRef 2005470503866
Serious
Yamaha YS crash on the A259 in Brighton and Hove, 1 December 2022
18 m awayRef 2022471248654
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A259 in Brighton and Hove, 15 September 2018
18 m awayRef 2018471805136
Serious
Car crash on the A259 in Brighton and Hove, 19 April 1989
20 m awayRef 198947CA90314
Slight
Lorry crash on the A259 in Brighton and Hove, 15 April 1983
20 m awayRef 198347CA30349
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,171 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,792 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, 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 198947CA90923 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 1989.