Serious A259 crash in Arun on 12 November 1985 at 13:15 involving a motorcycle
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Nov 1985
- Tuesday, 13:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.79388, longitude -0.63986, in the PO22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bognor Regis.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198547YA50647
- Council area
- Arun
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 259
- Road type
- Single 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
- Daylight
- 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 29 August 1984.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A259 in Arun, 29 August 1984
At the same spotRef 198447YA40514
Serious
Car crash on the A259 in Arun, 11 April 1979
At the same spotRef 197947YA90157
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Arun, 2 November 1985
At the same spotRef 198547YA50624
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A259 in Arun, 18 February 2008
At the same spotRef 2008470801354
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Arun, 16 June 1980
At the same spotRef 198047YA00298
Serious
Kawasaki ZX crash on the B2259 in Arun, 28 October 2025
7 m awayRef 2025471666735
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 19, 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 198547YA50647 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.