B2185 crash in Brighton and Hove on 17 September 1999 at 09:55 involving a BMW 5 Series
A BMW 5 Series hit a pedestrian on the B2185 in Brighton and Hove at 09:55 on Friday 17 September 1999. A 72-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Sep 1999
- Friday, 09:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 5 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.83097, longitude -0.16746, in the BN3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brighton and Hove.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199947C005257
- Council area
- Brighton and Hove
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2185
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 2185
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 September 2021.
Slight
Seat Leon crash on the B2185 in Brighton and Hove, 6 September 2021
6 m awayRef 2021471084481
Slight
Jeep Wrangler crash on the B2185 in Brighton and Hove, 28 February 2011
10 m awayRef 2011471101332
Serious
Triumph Bonneville crash on the B2185 in Brighton and Hove, 16 May 2025
17 m awayRef 2025471591117
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B2185 in Brighton and Hove, 6 November 1998
22 m awayRef 199847C002367
Serious
Seat Mii crash on the B2185 in Brighton and Hove, 11 December 2024
38 m awayRef 2024471528844
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B2185 in Brighton and Hove, 3 March 1985
41 m awayRef 198547CA50172
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 72, hit by vehicle 1 (BMW 5 Series)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 199947C005257 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 1999.