A259 crash in Brighton and Hove on 12 August 2020 at 18:23 involving a Honda ANF125 motorcycle
A Honda ANF125 motorcycle crashed on the A259 in Brighton and Hove at 18:23 on Wednesday 12 August 2020. The 25-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 50 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Aug 2020
- Wednesday, 18:23
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda ANF125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.80696, longitude -0.07082, 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.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020470971973
- 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
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 259
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
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 October 2015.
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A259 in Brighton and Hove, 5 October 2015
3 m awayRef 2015471505817
Slight
Piaggio ET2 crash on a C road in Brighton and Hove, 9 November 2011
5 m awayRef 2011471107158
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A259 in Brighton and Hove, 3 January 1994
5 m awayRef 199447CA40071
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A259 in Brighton and Hove, 26 July 1994
5 m awayRef 199447CA40584
Slight
Rover 600 Series crash on the A259 in Brighton and Hove, 10 October 2000
5 m awayRef 200047C128567
Serious
Peugeot 108 crash on the A259 in Brighton and Hove, 26 July 2025
7 m awayRef 2025471621083
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda ANF125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 25, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda ANF125)
- 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 2020470971973 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 2020.