A259 crash in Chichester on 28 May 1993 at 15:15 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra and a Kawasaki ER250 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A259 in Chichester at 15:15 on Friday 28 May 1993. The 19-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki ER250 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 May 1993
- Friday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Sierra and Kawasaki ER250
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84295, longitude -0.88217, in the PO18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hambrook and Nutbourne.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199347YA30296
- Council area
- Chichester
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 259
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 1 March 1979.
Serious
Car crash on the A27 in Chichester, 1 March 1979
At the same spotRef 197947YA90105
Serious
Lorry crash on the A27 in Chichester, 16 October 1981
At the same spotRef 198147YA10619
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the A259 in Chichester, 14 August 1994
At the same spotRef 199447YA40524
Slight
Vauxhall Senator crash on the A259 in Chichester, 7 April 1991
10 m awayRef 199147YA10211
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A259 in Chichester, 2 March 2016
12 m awayRef 2016471601296
Serious
Nissan Bluebird crash on the A259 in Chichester, 10 July 1998
14 m awayRef 199847Y000523
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Kawasaki ER250
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
- Engine capacity
- 248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Kawasaki ER250)
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 199347YA30296 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 1993.