Unclassified road crash in Worthing BN12 on 3 April 1979 at 14:00 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Worthing at 14:00 on Tuesday 3 April 1979. The 16-year-old female rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Apr 1979
- Tuesday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81943, longitude -0.41226, in the BN12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worthing.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197947XA90203
- Council area
- Worthing
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 30 September 2019.
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 30 September 2019
6 m awayRef 2019470882858
Serious
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Worthing, 7 September 1994
10 m awayRef 199447XA40417
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on a C road in Worthing, 21 August 2000
10 m awayRef 200047X126273
Serious
Citroen BX crash on a C road in Worthing, 9 October 1992
10 m awayRef 199247XA20492
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 6 December 2025
14 m awayRef 2025471679376
Slight
Scania crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 18 October 2017
14 m awayRef 2017471705882
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 76 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 197947XA90203 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Worthing road accident statistics for 1979.