C road crash in Brighton and Hove BN2 on 9 November 2011 at 17:10 involving a Piaggio ET2 motorcycle
A car and a Piaggio ET2 motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Brighton and Hove at 17:10 on Wednesday 9 November 2011. The 31-year-old male rider of the Piaggio ET2 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Nov 2011
- Wednesday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Piaggio ET2
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.80693, longitude -0.07089, 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Brighton and Hove
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011471107158
- Council area
- Brighton and Hove
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 259
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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 26 July 1994.
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A259 in Brighton and Hove, 26 July 1994
At the same spotRef 199447CA40584
Slight
Rover 600 Series crash on the A259 in Brighton and Hove, 10 October 2000
At the same spotRef 200047C128567
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A259 in Brighton and Hove, 3 January 1994
At the same spotRef 199447CA40071
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A259 in Brighton and Hove, 5 October 2015
3 m awayRef 2015471505817
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Honda ANF125 crash on the A259 in Brighton and Hove, 12 August 2020
5 m awayRef 2020470971973
Slight
Lorry crash on the A259 in Brighton and Hove, 20 May 1987
10 m awayRef 198747CA70394
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 55 years
Vehicle 2: Piaggio ET2
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 31, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Piaggio ET2)
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 2011471107158 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.