Serious A270 crash in Brighton and Hove on 3 January 2013 at 18:38 involving a Volvo C30
A Volvo C30 hit a pedestrian on the A270 in Brighton and Hove at 18:38 on Thursday 3 January 2013. A 56-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, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 3 Jan 2013
- Thursday, 18:38
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo C30
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.83189, longitude -0.13004, in the BN2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brighton and Hove. It is one of the crashes that make up the Round Hill, Brighton and Hove, BN2 3GB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013471300036
- Council area
- Brighton and Hove
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 270
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 December 1992.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A270 in Brighton and Hove, 14 December 1992
8 m awayRef 199247CA20944
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A270 in Brighton and Hove, 2 September 2025
13 m awayRef 2025471638273
Serious
Toyota Prius crash on the A270 in Brighton and Hove, 4 May 2024
13 m awayRef 2024471438962
Slight
Car crash on the A27 in Brighton and Hove, 23 September 1987
14 m awayRef 198747CA70858
Slight
Bus crash on the A27 in Brighton and Hove, 6 July 1982
14 m awayRef 198247CA20567
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A27 in Brighton and Hove, 19 December 2005
14 m awayRef 2005470600079
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo C30
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- 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
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 56, hit by vehicle 1 (Volvo C30)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2013471300036 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 2013.