Serious A259 crash in Brighton and Hove on 21 January 2012 at 02:58 involving a Fiat 500
A Fiat 500 hit a pedestrian on the A259 in Brighton and Hove at 02:58 on Saturday 21 January 2012. A 27-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Jan 2012
- Saturday, 02:58
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat 500
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81457, longitude -0.10933, in the BN2 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whitehawk & Marina, Brighton and Hove, BN2 5JN area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012471200358
- 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
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 98%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 2%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 January 2019.
Slight
Wrightbus Streetdeck crash on the A259 in Brighton and Hove, 30 January 2019
9 m awayRef 2019471900580
Fatal
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A259 in Brighton and Hove, 23 July 1991
10 m awayRef 199147CA10473
Serious
Triumph Tiger crash on the A259 in Brighton and Hove, 29 October 2019
14 m awayRef 2019470894379
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A259 in Brighton and Hove, 15 December 2002
20 m awayRef 200247K157976
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Brighton and Hove, 15 October 1989
20 m awayRef 198947CA90852
Slight
Van crash on the A259 in Brighton and Hove, 2 March 1989
20 m awayRef 198947CA90183
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 875 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 27, hit by vehicle 1 (Fiat 500)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2012471200358 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 2012.