A259 | |
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Route information | |
Length: | 118.5 mi (190.7 km) |
Major junctions | |
East end: | Folkestone |
M20 motorway A20 road A21 road A22 road A23 road A24 road A26 road A27 road A29 road A261 road A268 road A269 road A280 road A283 road A284 road A289 road A2010 road A2021 road A2023 road A2025 road A2032 road A2033 road A2036 road A2070 road A2101 road A2102 road A2270 road A2290 road |
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West end: | Emsworth |
Location | |
Primary destinations: |
Bexhill-on-Sea Brighton Bognor Regis Chichester Eastbourne Folkestone Hastings Littlehampton Worthing Rye Shoreham-by-Sea |
Road network | |
The A259 is a road on the south coast of England passing through Hampshire, West Sussex, East Sussex and part of Kent. Part of the road was named "the most dangerous road in South East England" in 2008, and the BBC named the road as the 'most crash prone A road' in the UK with 7,721 crashes and 120 deaths over 12 years from 1999–2010, an average of 65 crashes per mile.
The A259 is a busy two-lane road running along the south coast of England; part is almost parallel to the A27 road. The A259 runs east from Emsworth in Hampshire, into West Sussex via Chichester, Bognor Regis, Littlehampton, Ferring, Worthing, Lancing, Shoreham-by-Sea, into the Unitary Authority of Brighton and Hove which incorporates Portslade, Hove and Brighton, and on into the East Sussex towns of Peacehaven, Newhaven, Seaford, Eastbourne, Pevensey, Bexhill-on-Sea, Hastings and Rye. Over the border in Kent, it continues through New Romney and Hythe to terminate at Folkestone.