A259 crash in Brighton and Hove on 28 June 2011 at 15:00 involving a car
A car and a bus or coach were involved in a crash on the A259 in Brighton and Hove at 15:00 on Tuesday 28 June 2011. The 45-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Jun 2011
- Tuesday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.80409, longitude -0.06277, in the BN2 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rottingdean & West Saltdean, Brighton and Hove, BN2 7LB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011471103993
- Council area
- Brighton and Hove
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 259
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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 slight injury crash on 3 August 2000.
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A259 in Brighton and Hove, 3 August 2000
At the same spotRef 200047C007680
Serious
Alfa Romeo GT crash on the A259 in Brighton and Hove, 23 April 2016
7 m awayRef 2016471602382
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the A259 in Brighton and Hove, 24 June 2019
7 m awayRef 2019470850649
Serious
Honda WW125EX2 crash on the A259 in Brighton and Hove, 24 January 2017
8 m awayRef 2017471700503
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A259 in Brighton and Hove, 19 January 2018
9 m awayRef 2018471800327
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Brighton and Hove, 2 May 1986
10 m awayRef 198647CA60393
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Vehicle 2: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 45, 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 2011471103993 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.