A286 crash in Chichester on 4 October 1984 at 08:25 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A286 in Chichester at 08:25 on Thursday 4 October 1984. The 20-year-old female rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Oct 1984
- Thursday, 08:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.87059, longitude -0.78615, in the PO18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Mid Lavant.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198447YA40583
- Council area
- Chichester
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 286
- 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a fatal crash on 16 November 2006.
Fatal
Scania crash on the A286 in Chichester, 16 November 2006
At the same spotRef 2006470609785
Slight
Lorry crash on the A286 in Chichester, 15 June 1987
At the same spotRef 198747YA70335
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A286 in Chichester, 14 November 2025
1 m awayRef 2025471668811
Slight
Mini One crash on the A286 in Chichester, 19 March 2016
2 m awayRef 2016471601650
Slight
Car crash on the A286 in Chichester, 5 December 1980
10 m awayRef 198047YA00699
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A286 in Chichester, 3 March 1994
10 m awayRef 199447YA40143
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 20, motorcyclist, 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 198447YA40583 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chichester road accident statistics for 1984.