C road crash in Chichester PO18 on 3 July 1985 at 07:30 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Chichester at 07:30 on Wednesday 3 July 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
- 3 Jul 1985
- Wednesday, 07:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.86559, longitude -0.78159, in the PO18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Mid Lavant.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198547YA50323
- Council area
- Chichester
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 March 1996.
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on a C road in Chichester, 2 March 1996
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Slight
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Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in Chichester, 4 June 2009
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Slight
Kia Sportage crash on an unclassified road in Chichester, 1 December 2014
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Slight
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Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A286 in Chichester, 15 May 2022
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- 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 198547YA50323 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.