A272 crash in Chichester on 12 May 1996 at 09:05 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A272 in Chichester at 09:05 on Sunday 12 May 1996. The 33-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 May 1996
- Sunday, 09:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.98857, longitude -0.69388, in the GU29 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199647YA60324
- Council area
- Chichester
- Police force
- Sussex
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 272
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 December 1992.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A272 in Chichester, 20 December 1992
At the same spotRef 199247YA20825
Serious
Volvo crash on the A272 in Chichester, 16 September 1993
At the same spotRef 199347YA30565
Fatal
Ford Granada crash on the A272 in Chichester, 12 July 1991
At the same spotRef 199147YA10465
Slight
Car crash on the A272 in Chichester, 27 July 1989
At the same spotRef 198947YA90493
Slight
Hyundai Getz crash on the A272 in Chichester, 17 December 2017
1 m awayRef 2017471707232
Slight
Nissan Juke crash on the A272 in Chichester, 24 November 2018
1 m awayRef 2018471806484
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 916 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 33, motorcyclist, 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 199647YA60324 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 1996.