A motorcycle policeman on a 999 call was hurt in a crash which caused chaos on a busy seafront road today.
The officer was riding a marked bike, which was in collision with a van at the junction of Third Avenue and Kingsway, Hove, about 250 yards west of the Peace Statue.
Police sealed off the road as paramedics raced to the scene just before 11am.
The officer, who has not been named, suffered cuts to his face and a suspected broken wrist.
He was taken by ambulance to the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton for treatment.
Them 45-year-old driver of the white Hyundai van, which was turning out of Third Avenue, was unhurt.
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