A264 crash in Horsham on 18 September 1985 at 22:15 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A264 in Horsham at 22:15 on Wednesday 18 September 1985. The 41-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Sep 1985
- Wednesday, 22:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.09671, longitude -0.24425, in the RH12 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198547NA50429
- Council area
- Horsham
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 264
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 November 2004.
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A264 in Horsham, 26 November 2004
22 m awayRef 200447K181780
Slight
Ford Puma crash on the A264 in Horsham, 22 April 2024
24 m awayRef 2024471434573
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A264 in Horsham, 3 June 2023
43 m awayRef 2023471315160
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A264 in Horsham, 31 March 2025
44 m awayRef 2025471571655
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A264 in Horsham, 22 February 1989
61 m awayRef 198947NA90138
Serious
Car crash on the A264 in Horsham, 6 March 2008
61 m awayRef 2008470801906
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 41, 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 198547NA50429 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 1985.