A27 crash in Brighton and Hove on 26 January 1994 at 18:00 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra hit a pedestrian on the A27 in Brighton and Hove at 18:00 on Wednesday 26 January 1994. A 10-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jan 1994
- Wednesday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.83924, longitude -0.12312, 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
- 199447CA40107
- Council area
- Brighton and Hove
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 27
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 26 February 2004.
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Yamaha crash on the A270 in Brighton and Hove, 26 February 2004
At the same spotRef 200447K172389
Serious
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Serious
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Serious
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Serious
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Slight
Scania crash on the A270 in Brighton and Hove, 12 January 2011
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,593 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 199447CA40107 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 1994.