A286 crash in Chichester on 19 June 1985 at 19:40 involving a van
A van and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A286 in Chichester at 19:40 on Wednesday 19 June 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, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Jun 1985
- Wednesday, 19:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.98459, longitude -0.74101, in the GU29 postcode district and within the built-up area of Midhurst.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198547YA50290
- 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
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 May 2015.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A286 in Chichester, 18 May 2015
13 m awayRef 2015471502744
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A286 in Chichester, 2 December 2022
22 m awayRef 2022471253668
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A286 in Chichester, 22 December 1996
22 m awayRef 199647YA60935
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A286 in Chichester, 14 October 2006
22 m awayRef 2006470608641
Slight
Van crash on the A286 in Chichester, 9 December 1980
28 m awayRef 198047YA00727
Serious
Mobility scooter crash on an unclassified road in Chichester, 16 August 2016
30 m awayRef 2016471604912
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- 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 198547YA50290 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 1985.