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A24 crash in Arun on 11 August 1985 at 21:40 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on the A24 in Arun at 21:40 on Sunday 11 August 1985. The 22-year-old male rider was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
11 Aug 1985
Sunday, 21:40
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.87877, longitude -0.4118, in the BN14 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Arun

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198547XA50382
Council area
Arun
Police force
Sussex

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
24
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
70 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

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 31 May 1991.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North
    Lane or location
    Not on carriageway
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Entered ditch
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    22 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Slight

    Male, aged 22, 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 198547XA50382 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Arun road accident statistics for 1985.