Unclassified road crash in Brighton and Hove BN41 on 23 July 2025 at 15:15 involving an Audi A3
An Audi A3 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Brighton and Hove at 15:15 on Wednesday 23 July 2025. A 1-year-old female pedestrian 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
- 23 Jul 2025
- Wednesday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84395, longitude -0.22495, in the BN41 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brighton and Hove. It is one of the crashes that make up the South Portslade, Brighton and Hove, BN41 1SQ 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
- 2025471620006
- 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
- Unclassified
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, 62 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 September 1979.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Brighton and Hove, 1 September 1979
62 m awayRef 197947CA90849
Serious
Austin Metro crash on a C road in Brighton and Hove, 22 January 2003
63 m awayRef 200347K159136
Slight
Fiat Cinquecento crash on an unclassified road in Brighton and Hove, 26 August 2002
64 m awayRef 200247K154059
Slight
Kia Rio crash on an unclassified road in Brighton and Hove, 4 December 2002
67 m awayRef 200247K157867
Slight
Taxi crash on a C road in Brighton and Hove, 2 March 1985
68 m awayRef 198547CA50176
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Brighton and Hove, 27 March 2014
73 m awayRef 2014471401658
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,395 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 1, hit by vehicle 1 (Audi A3)
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most 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 2025471620006 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.