A2023 crash in Brighton and Hove on 20 January 2011 at 19:40 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra hit a pedestrian on the A2023 in Brighton and Hove at 19:40 on Thursday 20 January 2011. An 18-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jan 2011
- Thursday, 19:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.83824, longitude -0.17782, in the BN3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brighton and Hove. It is one of the crashes that make up the Westdene & Hove Park, Brighton and Hove, BN3 7EX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Brighton and Hove
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011471100487
- Council area
- Brighton and Hove
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2023
- 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
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 24 December 2010.
Serious
Car crash on the A2023 in Brighton and Hove, 24 December 2010
At the same spotRef 2010471008774
Slight
Van crash on the A2023 in Brighton and Hove, 21 June 1985
14 m awayRef 198547CA50606
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A2023 in Brighton and Hove, 17 September 1998
14 m awayRef 199847C001643
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the A2032 in Brighton and Hove, 21 December 1991
14 m awayRef 199147CA10881
Serious
Volkswagen Sharan crash on the A2023 in Brighton and Hove, 28 November 2025
15 m awayRef 2025471679519
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A2023 in Brighton and Hove, 8 July 2015
19 m awayRef 2015471503909
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 18, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
- 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 2011471100487 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 2011.