C road crash in Arun BN17 on 14 May 1981 at 20:20 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Arun at 20:20 on Thursday 14 May 1981. The 18-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 crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 May 1981
- Thursday, 20:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.80529, longitude -0.53451, in the BN17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Littlehampton.
Map of where the crash happened in Arun
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198147XA10321
- Council area
- Arun
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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 30 July 1982.
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Bicycle crash on a C road in Arun, 30 July 1982
At the same spotRef 198247XA20567
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Car crash on a C road in Arun, 22 December 1987
At the same spotRef 198747XA70870
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Seat Ateca crash on an unclassified road in Arun, 10 April 2025
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Fiat 500 crash on an unclassified road in Arun, 5 June 2025
9 m awayRef 2025471598919
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Car crash on a C road in Arun, 26 October 1987
10 m awayRef 198747XA70698
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Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Arun, 13 July 1993
10 m awayRef 199347YA30418
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, 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 198147XA10321 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 1981.