Serious B2141 crash in Chichester on 18 April 2006 at 15:14 involving a Yamaha R6 motorcycle
A Yamaha R6 motorcycle crashed on the B2141 in Chichester at 15:14 on Tuesday 18 April 2006. The 21-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Apr 2006
- Tuesday, 15:14
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha R6
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.92256, longitude -0.81822, in the PO18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chichester
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006470603191
- Council area
- Chichester
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2141
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 98%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 2%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 May 1984.
Serious
Car crash on the B2141 in Chichester, 13 May 1984
10 m awayRef 198447YA40228
Slight
Car crash on the B2141 in Chichester, 15 August 1981
10 m awayRef 198147YA10455
Serious
BMW S 1000 crash on the B2141 in Chichester, 22 June 2019
19 m awayRef 2019470850034
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B2141 in Chichester, 26 January 1991
20 m awayRef 199147YA10059
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B2141 in Chichester, 2 October 2003
20 m awayRef 200347K167597
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B2141 in Chichester, 23 February 1999
20 m awayRef 199947Y001782
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha R6
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 21, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha R6)
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 2006470603191 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 2006.