Unclassified road crash in Horsham RH20 on 15 July 1984 at 18:50 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Horsham at 18:50 on Sunday 15 July 1984. The 23-year-old male rider 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
- 15 Jul 1984
- Sunday, 18:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.91688, longitude -0.44977, in the RH20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Storrington.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198447MA40170
- Council area
- Horsham
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 283
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 February 1979.
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Mercedes C Class crash on the A283 in Horsham, 6 November 2013
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Serious
Ford KA crash on the A283 in Horsham, 12 July 2021
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Slight
Vauxhall Viva crash on the A283 in Horsham, 19 December 1991
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Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A283 in Horsham, 2 August 1992
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 23, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (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 198447MA40170 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Horsham road accident statistics for 1984.