Serious B2145 crash in Chichester on 15 November 1991 at 19:50 involving a Kawasaki KMX125 motorcycle
A Kawasaki KMX125 motorcycle crashed on the B2145 in Chichester at 19:50 on Friday 15 November 1991. The 21-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Nov 1991
- Friday, 19:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kawasaki KMX125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.75899, longitude -0.78705, in the PO20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chichester
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199147YA10766
- Council area
- Chichester
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2145
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 April 1991.
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the B2145 in Chichester, 30 April 1991
At the same spotRef 199147YA10270
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the B2145 in Chichester, 17 May 1991
At the same spotRef 199147YA10316
Slight
Car crash on the B2145 in Chichester, 25 September 1985
At the same spotRef 198547YA50511
Serious
Renault Megane crash on the B2145 in Chichester, 17 October 2014
4 m awayRef 2014471406105
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B2145 in Chichester, 18 August 1984
10 m awayRef 198447YA40478
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B2145 in Chichester, 4 July 1991
10 m awayRef 199147YA10442
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki KMX125
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 21, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki KMX125)
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 199147YA10766 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 1991.