A man has suffered potentially life-changing injuries in a crash in Hove.
The accident happened in Portland Road last week, close to St Peter’s Catholic Church.
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Sussex Police said: “Emergency services were called to Portland Road, in Hove, on Tuesday 8 February to reports of a pedestrian having collided with a car near the junction with Modena Road.
“A 58-year-old man from Brighton was taken to hospital with potentially life-changing injuries.
“The driver of the vehicle, a 22-year-old local man, was reported for driving without due care and attention.”
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I tweeted about this at the time but it was not picked up here then. Witnesses told me that it was back-breakingly horrific for the elderly victim, and the police moved them on to avoid distress at his agonised screaming. Cllr Nemeth and I have urged safety measures on Portland Road this past year after horror on a Zebra beside the Westbourne pub.