A27 crash in Brighton and Hove on 16 January 2015 at 05:49 involving a car
A car crashed on the A27 in Brighton and Hove at 05:49 on Friday 16 January 2015. The 46-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in snow on an icy dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jan 2015
- Friday, 05:49
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.86263, longitude -0.08702, in the BN1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brighton and Hove. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kingston, Lewes, BN1 9BT 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
- 2015471500330
- Council area
- Brighton and Hove
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 27
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
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, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 21 January 1993.
Serious
Nissan Bluebird crash on the A27 in Brighton and Hove, 21 January 1993
5 m awayRef 199347CA30054
Serious
Audi 100 crash on the A27 in Brighton and Hove, 22 January 1993
5 m awayRef 199347CA30055
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A27 in Brighton and Hove, 26 August 2001
5 m awayRef 200147C140827
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A27 in Brighton and Hove, 6 July 1984
7 m awayRef 198447CA40731
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A27 in Brighton and Hove, 27 April 1984
8 m awayRef 198447CA40447
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on an unclassified road in Brighton and Hove, 20 October 2025
13 m awayRef 2025471656730
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering from slip road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 46, 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 2015471500330 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 2015.