A270 crash in Brighton and Hove on 9 June 2021 at 17:30 involving a Volkswagen Transporter van
A bicycle and a Volkswagen Transporter van were involved in a crash on the A270 in Brighton and Hove at 17:30 on Wednesday 9 June 2021. The 54-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Jun 2021
- Wednesday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Volkswagen Transporter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.83031, longitude -0.13217, 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Brighton and Hove
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021471054616
- Council area
- Brighton and Hove
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 270
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 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
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 March 2016.
Slight
Vauxhall Agila crash on the A270 in Brighton and Hove, 1 March 2016
2 m awayRef 2016471601319
Slight
Toyota Auris crash on the A270 in Brighton and Hove, 11 May 2016
3 m awayRef 2016471602765
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the A270 in Brighton and Hove, 13 February 2022
3 m awayRef 2022471143131
Serious
Electric motorcycle crash on the A270 in Brighton and Hove, 20 February 2025
4 m awayRef 2025471556546
Slight
Yamaha MW125 crash on the A270 in Brighton and Hove, 28 January 2016
4 m awayRef 2016471600583
Slight
Fiat Scudo crash on the A270 in Brighton and Hove, 13 January 2012
4 m awayRef 2012471200228
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Transporter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 54, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 2021471054616 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 2021.