A SUSPECTED drug driver has been arrested after crashing his car into a lamppost.
Emergency services were alerted at 6.29am on Thursday (February 2) to the crash in Ditchling Road, Brighton, near its junction with Osborne Road.
A silver Skoda Octavia car had collided with a lamppost on a traffic island.
A Susses Police spokesman said no one was injured but the road was partially blocked and oil from the crashed car spilled onto the surface."
Buses were temporarily diverted via Preston Drove until the road was re-opened at around 7.50am.
A 40-year-old Brighton man has been arrested on suspicion of driving while under the influence of drugs.
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