C road crash in Arun PO21 on 23 October 2000 at 23:09 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and an Aprilia motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Arun at 23:09 on Monday 23 October 2000. The 16-year-old male rider of the Aprilia motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Oct 2000
- Monday, 23:09
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Aprilia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78218, longitude -0.708, in the PO21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bognor Regis.
Map of where the crash happened in Arun
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200047Y128147
- Council area
- Arun
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 20 November 1992.
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Rover Range Rover crash on a C road in Arun, 20 November 1992
At the same spotRef 199247YA20729
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Car crash on a C road in Arun, 2 February 1988
At the same spotRef 198847YA80054
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Arun, 25 November 1984
At the same spotRef 198447YA40723
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Arun, 12 May 1984
At the same spotRef 198447YA40233
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on a C road in Arun, 4 September 1995
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Slight
Renault Laguna crash on an unclassified road in Arun, 6 October 2006
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Aprilia
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 50 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Aprilia)
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 200047Y128147 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Arun road accident statistics for 2000.