Dashcam footage captures man driving wrong way down A27

Dashcam footage has captured the moment a man drove the wrong way down the A27, crashing into multiple vehicles. Marcus Cresswell, 36, was jailed for a year and banned from driving for five and a half years following the incident in October 2021. [1] Cresswell, formerly of West Street, Brighton, drank alcohol before getting behind the wheel and reversed into vehicles in a car park before driving the wrong way along the A27 carriageway near Lancing.

The incident was captured on CCTV and dashcam footage. Cresswell fled the scene but was detained by a member of the public in a nearby field. Dashcam footage captured the moment Marcus Cresswell drove the wrong way down the A27 after drinking alcohol, crashing into several vehicles.

He has now been jailed for a year and banned from driving for five and a half years. pic.twitter.com/aO8kv9hkWW [2] -- Brighton Argus (@brightonargus) May 30, 2025 [3] PC Tom Van Der Wee from the roads policing unit said: "Miraculously nobody was seriously injured in the collision.

"But it could have been much worse.

Cresswell's selfish and dangerous actions caused an arterial dual carriageway to be closed for several hours impacting on thousands of motorists.