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A hunt is under way for a hit-and-run driver who left a pedestrian for dead in the middle of the road during a police chase. | |
The victim died at the scene after being struck by a Vauxhall Astra as police chased the vehicle in St James’s Street, Brighton, yards from the Palace Pier. | |
The driver abandoned the car a short distance from the crash on Madeira Drive, near the Concorde 2 music venue. | |
Sussex police said the pursuit took place after the Astra failed to stop for officers at about 10pm on Tuesday in the Bear Road area. | |
A spokesman said: “Officers pursued the car towards Brighton where the Vauxhall collided with a pedestrian on St James’s Street. The pedestrian sadly died at the scene.” | |
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has launched an investigation into the incident. | |
Crime officers in white forensics suits combed the crash scene for clues as a tent stood in the middle of the sealed-off road. | |
Locals described their shock at the death. Pat Hogan, 70, said he knew the victim, who has not been formally identified, as a “very nice, quiet man”. | |
He said: “I feel awful. It knocks you for six. If you knock someone down you have to stop, you don’t just drive off.” | |
Barry Salvage, 68, who lives in the Kemptown area of the city, said: “It’s terrible. I hope they find whoever did it and bang them up.” | |
No details of the identity or age of the victim have been released. | |
Some roads into Brighton were choked with traffic as police closed large sections of the Old Steine area. | |
A spokesman for the IPCC said: “We were alerted by Sussex police to the fatal road traffic incident in Brighton yesterday evening. | |
“The IPCC deployed investigators straight away and we have since begun an independent investigation into the circumstances of the police pursuit.” | “The IPCC deployed investigators straight away and we have since begun an independent investigation into the circumstances of the police pursuit.” |
Anyone with information should contact Sussex police on 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111. |