A259 crash in Worthing on 18 June 1991 at 14:48 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A Yamaha motorcycle and a Vauxhall Cavalier were involved in a crash on the A259 in Worthing at 14:48 on Tuesday 18 June 1991. The 26-year-old male rider of the Yamaha motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Jun 1991
- Tuesday, 14:48
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha and Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81361, longitude -0.40138, in the BN12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worthing.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199147XA10281
- Council area
- Worthing
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 January 1992.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A259 in Worthing, 13 January 1992
At the same spotRef 199247XA20023
Serious
Car crash on the A259 in Worthing, 1 January 1983
At the same spotRef 198347XA30004
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A259 in Worthing, 1 June 1996
At the same spotRef 199647XA60265
Slight
Scania crash on the A259 in Worthing, 30 May 2017
2 m awayRef 2017471702994
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the A259 in Worthing, 19 September 2011
6 m awayRef 2011471105866
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Worthing, 21 August 1982
10 m awayRef 198247XA20629
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 79 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 26, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Yamaha)
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 199147XA10281 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Worthing road accident statistics for 1991.