B2121 crash in Brighton and Hove on 4 March 1997 at 20:45 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo hit a pedestrian on the B2121 in Brighton and Hove at 20:45 on Tuesday 4 March 1997. A 30-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Mar 1997
- Tuesday, 20:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82846, longitude -0.1467, in the BN1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brighton and Hove.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199747CA70178
- Council area
- Brighton and Hove
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2121
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 November 1998.
Slight
Volvo crash on the B2121 in Brighton and Hove, 13 November 1998
32 m awayRef 199847C002452
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B2121 in Brighton and Hove, 30 January 2005
32 m awayRef 2005470500627
Serious
Car crash on the B2121 in Brighton and Hove, 9 December 1983
40 m awayRef 198347CA31318
Slight
Dennis crash on the B2121 in Brighton and Hove, 11 February 2011
41 m awayRef 2011471100927
Slight
Car crash on the B2121 in Brighton and Hove, 20 August 1984
45 m awayRef 198447CA40901
Slight
Renault Trafic crash on the B2121 in Brighton and Hove, 23 July 2021
52 m awayRef 2021471075617
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 30, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 199747CA70178 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 1997.