Video of moment man drives wrong way down A27 near Lancing

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. "Those involved in the road traffic collision have been left severely shaken by the incident and out of pocket due to the fact he was not insured.

"It is incidents like this that make us so determined to catch drink drivers and stop them causing so much chaos on our roads.

"We are pleased that a dangerous driver has been taken off our roads, and is now behind bars to reflect on his atrocious behaviour."

He was sentenced on May 20.

References

1. ^ was jailed for a year and banned from driving for five and a half years following the incident in October 2021. (www.theargus.co.uk)
2. ^ pic.twitter.com/aO8kv9hkWW (t.co)
3. ^ May 30, 2025 (twitter.com)
4. ^ Three people taken to hospital after A-road crash (www.theargus.co.uk)