Serious unclassified road crash in Worthing BN13 on 12 December 2007 at 18:08 involving a Renault Megane
A Renault Megane and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Worthing at 18:08 on Wednesday 12 December 2007. The 16-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Dec 2007
- Wednesday, 18:08
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Megane and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.8278, longitude -0.42474, in the BN13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worthing. It is one of the crashes that make up the Castle, Worthing, BN12 6JZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Worthing
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007470710445
- Council area
- Worthing
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 97%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 3%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 November 1984.
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 16 November 1984
10 m awayRef 198447XA40608
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 17 December 2005
10 m awayRef 2005470510889
Serious
Renault 5 crash on a C road in Worthing, 19 March 1996
10 m awayRef 199647XA60150
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Worthing, 5 September 1996
10 m awayRef 199647XA60441
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 14 September 2004
10 m awayRef 200447K178624
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Worthing, 21 April 2009
10 m awayRef 2009470903064
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 50 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 16, 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 2007470710445 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.