A259 crash in Chichester on 17 December 1985 at 17:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A259 in Chichester at 17:30 on Tuesday 17 December 1985. The 17-year-old female rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 1985
- Tuesday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.83318, longitude -0.7607, in the PO19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chichester.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198547YA50737
- Council area
- Chichester
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 March 1998.
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A259 in Chichester, 30 March 1998
10 m awayRef 199847YA80157
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Chichester, 30 January 1979
10 m awayRef 197947YA90038
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A259 in Chichester, 27 April 1983
10 m awayRef 198347YA30195
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A259 in Chichester, 21 October 1999
22 m awayRef 199947Y002687
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Chichester, 30 September 2009
22 m awayRef 2009470907188
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Chichester, 2 August 1990
28 m awayRef 199047YA00585
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 17, 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 198547YA50737 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.