A2023 crash in Brighton and Hove on 13 February 1985 at 12:40 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A2023 in Brighton and Hove at 12:40 on Wednesday 13 February 1985. 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, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Feb 1985
- Wednesday, 12:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84082, longitude -0.17802, in the BN3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brighton and Hove.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198547CA50123
- Council area
- Brighton and Hove
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2023
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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 20 March 1981.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A2023 in Brighton and Hove, 20 March 1981
10 m awayRef 198147CA10250
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A2023 in Brighton and Hove, 2 January 1992
14 m awayRef 199247CA20003
Slight
Bus crash on the A2023 in Brighton and Hove, 14 November 2009
14 m awayRef 2009470908524
Serious
Car crash on the A2023 in Brighton and Hove, 11 June 1986
20 m awayRef 198647CA60543
Slight
Peugeot 607 crash on the A2023 in Brighton and Hove, 6 January 2011
22 m awayRef 2011471100142
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A2023 in Brighton and Hove, 17 September 2007
22 m awayRef 2007470707776
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- 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 198547CA50123 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Brighton and Hove road accident statistics for 1985.