C road crash in Worthing BN11 on 8 November 2007 at 18:30 involving a Seat Ibiza
A Seat Ibiza and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Worthing at 18:30 on Thursday 8 November 2007. The 18-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Nov 2007
- Thursday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Seat Ibiza and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81973, longitude -0.36112, in the BN11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worthing. It is one of the crashes that make up the Selden, Worthing, BN11 2DG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Worthing
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007470709366
- Council area
- Worthing
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 21 July 1988.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Worthing, 21 July 1988
22 m awayRef 198847XA80503
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Worthing, 3 February 1998
28 m awayRef 199847XA80061
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 30 May 1981
36 m awayRef 198147XA10366
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 10 September 2004
61 m awayRef 200447K178663
Slight
Austin Metro crash on a C road in Worthing, 22 September 1994
61 m awayRef 199447XA40451
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 6 September 1984
80 m awayRef 198447XA40472
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (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 2007470709366 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Worthing road accident statistics for 2007.