Fatal B2138 crash in Chichester on 27 November 1993 at 23:40 involving a Honda MTX125RW motorcycle
A Honda MTX125RW motorcycle crashed on the B2138 in Chichester at 23:40 on Saturday 27 November 1993. The 25-year-old male rider was killed.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 27 Nov 1993
- Saturday, 23:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda MTX125RW
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 killed
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.94, longitude -0.57027, in the RH20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chichester
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199347YA30719
- Council area
- Chichester
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2138
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 June 2006.
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on the B2138 in Chichester, 26 June 2006
20 m awayRef 2006470605223
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the B2138 in Chichester, 30 October 2014
73 m awayRef 2014471406389
Serious
Renault Trafic crash on the B2138 in Chichester, 17 October 1999
95 m awayRef 199947Y002678
Serious
Peugeot 108 crash on the B2138 in Chichester, 14 January 2018
110 m awayRef 2018471800218
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the B2138 in Chichester, 17 November 2024
313 m awayRef 2024471517540
Slight
Kawasaki BN125 crash on the B2138 in Chichester, 25 August 2004
322 m awayRef 200447K178136
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda MTX125RW
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
FatalMale, aged 25, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Honda MTX125RW)
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 199347YA30719 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.