Unclassified road crash in Brighton and Hove BN3 on 5 January 2016 at 13:00 involving a Mercedes C Class
A car and a Mercedes C Class were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Brighton and Hove at 13:00 on Tuesday 5 January 2016. The 27-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jan 2016
- Tuesday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84553, longitude -0.16031, in the BN3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brighton and Hove.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016471600063
- Council area
- Brighton and Hove
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 January 1991.
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on a C road in Brighton and Hove, 15 January 1991
7 m awayRef 199147CA10080
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Brighton and Hove, 19 February 1994
7 m awayRef 199447CA40145
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Brighton and Hove, 1 May 1987
7 m awayRef 198747CA70341
Slight
Vauxhall Agila crash on a C road in Brighton and Hove, 4 March 2010
7 m awayRef 2010471001475
Slight
Yamaha GPD 125 crash on an unclassified road in Brighton and Hove, 15 April 2018
8 m awayRef 2018471801998
Slight
Honda SH125 crash on an unclassified road in Brighton and Hove, 7 November 2019
10 m awayRef 2019470896835
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
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 2016471600063 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 2016.