Unclassified road crash in Brighton and Hove BN2 on 25 January 2025 at 10:00 involving a Ford Fusion
A Ford Fusion and a Yamaha GPD motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Brighton and Hove at 10:00 on Saturday 25 January 2025. The 37-year-old male rider of the Yamaha GPD motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Jan 2025
- Saturday, 10:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fusion and Yamaha GPD
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.83408, longitude -0.12774, 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
- 2025471546409
- 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
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 270
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 August 2018.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Brighton and Hove, 11 August 2018
10 m awayRef 2018471804482
Slight
MAN crash on the A270 in Brighton and Hove, 13 February 2013
21 m awayRef 2013471300822
Serious
Peugeot Boxer crash on the A270 in Brighton and Hove, 17 August 2012
22 m awayRef 2012471204226
Serious
Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in Brighton and Hove, 27 August 2016
22 m awayRef 2016471605174
Slight
Car crash on the A27 in Brighton and Hove, 4 February 1982
23 m awayRef 198247CA20090
Slight
Car crash on the A27 in Brighton and Hove, 18 July 1989
23 m awayRef 198947CA90600
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fusion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Yamaha GPD
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 37, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha GPD)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2025471546409 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 2025.