A24 crash in Worthing on 24 September 1985 at 23:45 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A24 in Worthing at 23:45 on Tuesday 24 September 1985. The 22-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Sep 1985
- Tuesday, 23:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81518, longitude -0.37166, in the BN11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worthing.
Map of where the crash happened in Worthing
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198547XA50469
- Council area
- Worthing
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 24
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 December 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A24 in Worthing, 13 December 1989
At the same spotRef 198947XA90717
Slight
Car crash on the A24 in Worthing, 14 August 1993
At the same spotRef 199347XA30377
Serious
Car crash on the A24 in Worthing, 22 January 1985
At the same spotRef 198547XA50094
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the A259 in Worthing, 14 October 2004
At the same spotRef 200447K179671
Slight
Car crash on the A24 in Worthing, 11 December 1981
At the same spotRef 198147XA10894
Slight
Car crash on the A24 in Worthing, 5 December 1983
At the same spotRef 198347XA30766
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 22, 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 198547XA50469 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Worthing road accident statistics for 1985.