Serious B2112 crash in Mid Sussex on 27 February 1982 at 08:35 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B2112 in Mid Sussex at 08:35 on Saturday 27 February 1982. The 21-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Feb 1982
- Saturday, 08:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.98263, longitude -0.09782, in the RH16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Haywards Heath.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Sussex
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198247NA20148
- Council area
- Mid Sussex
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2112
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 December 2003.
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the B2112 in Mid Sussex, 15 December 2003
22 m awayRef 200347K170085
Slight
Car crash on the B2112 in Mid Sussex, 6 April 1987
36 m awayRef 198747HA70197
Slight
Abarth 500 crash on the B2112 in Mid Sussex, 23 October 2024
38 m awayRef 2024471512381
Slight
Car crash on the B2112 in Mid Sussex, 22 February 2015
39 m awayRef 2015471501083
Slight
Chrysler Voyager crash on an unclassified road in Mid Sussex, 1 September 2012
41 m awayRef 2012471204536
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B2112 in Mid Sussex, 25 January 2018
42 m awayRef 2018471800434
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 21, 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 198247NA20148 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 1982.