Sussex Police supplies personal injury collision information to Brighton & Hove City Council on a regular basis. This data is checked and validated, and then used by the Transport Projects Team to investigate collisions and implement a road safety strategy. The data remains the property of the Police and does not include collisions where there is damage only (i.e. no reported casualties).
See the latest casualty data.
Brighton & Hove City Council is a member of the Sussex Safer Roads Partnership. The other partnership members are:
East and West Sussex County Councils, Sussex Police, Highways England, East and West Sussex Fire and Rescue Services and HM Courts and Tribunals Service (Sussex).
Collisions that occur on the A23 or A27 trunk roads which are managed by the Highways Agency but located within the Brighton & Hove City boundary will appear within the Brighton & Hove data, although we have no local highway authority responsibility for those roads.
Collision and casualty categories
The data may refer to either the number of collisions or the number of casualties in the collisions; one collision may result in several casualties. Therefore, the number of casualties in any year is always greater than the number of collisions.
The casualties/injuries are categorised by severity:
Fatal - injury resulting in the death of a casualty within 30 days of the collision.
Serious - injury including fracture, internal injury, concussion, severe shock, severe cuts, detention in hospital.
Slight - injury including sprains, whiplash, bruises, slight cuts.
Collisions are categorised by the most severe casualty category. So if, for example, a collision results in 3 casualties – one fatal, one serious and one slight – the collision is categorised as a fatal collision.
For more information, send an email to transport.projects@brighton-hove.gov.uk.