B2178 crash in Chichester on 28 November 1985 at 08:40 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B2178 in Chichester at 08:40 on Thursday 28 November 1985. The 18-year-old female rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Nov 1985
- Thursday, 08:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.86434, longitude -0.83533, in the PO18 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198547YA50697
- Council area
- Chichester
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2178
- 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 December 2008.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B2178 in Chichester, 19 December 2008
10 m awayRef 2008470809861
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B2178 in Chichester, 5 November 1983
10 m awayRef 198347YA30610
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B2178 in Chichester, 26 June 1986
14 m awayRef 198647YA60336
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Chichester, 14 December 2021
18 m awayRef 2021471121114
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B2178 in Chichester, 14 December 1995
20 m awayRef 199547YA50840
Serious
Suzuki GSX 1300 crash on the B2178 in Chichester, 1 April 2016
22 m awayRef 2016471601899
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 18, motorcyclist (50cc and under), 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 198547YA50697 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.