A259 crash in Brighton and Hove on 4 July 2012 at 18:30 involving a Citroen Dispatch van
A Citroen Dispatch van and a car were involved in a crash on the A259 in Brighton and Hove at 18:30 on Wednesday 4 July 2012. The 27-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Jul 2012
- Wednesday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen Dispatch and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.80647, longitude -0.07019, 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
- 2012471203428
- Council area
- Brighton and Hove
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 259
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Daylight
- 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 slight injury crash on 6 October 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Brighton and Hove, 6 October 1987
At the same spotRef 198747CA70916
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on the A259 in Brighton and Hove, 9 March 1995
10 m awayRef 199547CA50192
Serious
Car crash on the A259 in Brighton and Hove, 8 July 1982
14 m awayRef 198247CA20576
Slight
Porsche Boxster crash on the A259 in Brighton and Hove, 9 January 2009
20 m awayRef 2009470900263
Slight
Alfa Romeo 75 crash on the A259 in Brighton and Hove, 20 April 1999
20 m awayRef 199947C003924
Slight
MAN crash on the A259 in Brighton and Hove, 11 February 1999
22 m awayRef 199947C003291
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Dispatch
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 2012471203428 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.