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| Pedestrian killed during Brighton police chase | Pedestrian killed during Brighton police chase |
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| A pedestrian has died after being hit by a car being pursued by police. | A pedestrian has died after being hit by a car being pursued by police. |
| Police were searching for the driver after the victim died at the scene of the crash in St James Street, Brighton, on Tuesday night. | Police were searching for the driver after the victim died at the scene of the crash in St James Street, Brighton, on Tuesday night. |
| Officers found a Vauxhall Astra abandoned in Madeira Drive, near the Concorde 2 music venue. | Officers found a Vauxhall Astra abandoned in 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. | |
| Forensics officers in white suits were carrying out examinations of the scene near Palace Pier. | |
| Some roads into the city were traffic choked as police sealed off large sections of the Old Steine area of Brighton. | |
| 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. | |
| “The IPCC deployed investigators straight away and we have since begun an independent investigation into the circumstances of the police pursuit.” |