C road crash in Mid Sussex RH19 on 7 December 1980 at 18:35 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Mid Sussex at 18:35 on Sunday 7 December 1980. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Dec 1980
- Sunday, 18:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.11084, longitude 0.02744, in the RH19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ashurst Wood.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Sussex
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198047RA00432
- Council area
- Mid Sussex
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 July 1999.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Mid Sussex, 29 July 1999
36 m awayRef 199947H003021
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Mid Sussex, 14 December 2009
73 m awayRef 2009470909443
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Mid Sussex, 12 May 1981
73 m awayRef 198147RA10150
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Mid Sussex, 4 July 2015
93 m awayRef 2015471503825
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Mid Sussex, 14 August 1984
102 m awayRef 198447HA40390
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Mid Sussex, 14 August 1979
102 m awayRef 197947RA90270
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist, 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 198047RA00432 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Sussex road accident statistics for 1980.