Unclassified road crash in Arun PO22 on 4 October 1980 at 16:25 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Arun at 16:25 on Saturday 4 October 1980. The 16-year-old male 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
- 4 Oct 1980
- Saturday, 16:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79874, longitude -0.67931, in the PO22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bognor Regis.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198047YA00558
- Council area
- Arun
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 September 1994.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on a C road in Arun, 21 September 1994
At the same spotRef 199447YA40624
Slight
Austin Mini crash on a C road in Arun, 15 February 1990
10 m awayRef 199047YA00102
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Arun, 24 December 2007
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Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Arun, 13 December 2019
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Serious
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Arun, 13 July 1979
14 m awayRef 197947YA90338
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Arun, 25 March 1982
14 m awayRef 198247YA20134
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, 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 198047YA00558 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Arun road accident statistics for 1980.