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A pedestrian has died after being hit by a car being pursued by police. 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.
Police were searching for the driver after the victim died at the scene of the crash in St James Street, Brighton, on Tuesday night. 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.
Officers found a Vauxhall Astra abandoned in Madeira Drive, near the Concorde 2 music venue. The driver abandoned the car a short distance from the crash on Madeira Drive, near the Concorde 2 music venue.
Police first tried to stop the car at about 10pm in Bear Road before pursuing it towards the site of the collision, Sussex police said. 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.
Forensics officers in white suits were carrying out examinations of the scene near Palace Pier. 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.”
Some roads into the city were traffic choked as police sealed off large sections of the Old Steine area of Brighton. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has launched an investigation into the incident.
A spokesman for the Independent Police Complaints Commission said: “We were alerted by Sussex police to the fatal road traffic incident in Brighton yesterday evening. 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.