A272 crash in Chichester on 28 January 2012 at 17:31 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A272 in Chichester at 17:31 on Saturday 28 January 2012. The 30-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Jan 2012
- Saturday, 17:31
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.99384, longitude -0.80573, in the GU31 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chichester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012471200510
- Council area
- Chichester
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 August 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the A272 in Chichester, 13 August 1979
10 m awayRef 197947YA90405
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the A272 in Chichester, 19 March 1995
10 m awayRef 199547YA50156
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A272 in Chichester, 14 March 2000
14 m awayRef 200047Y003281
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A272 in Chichester, 20 July 1999
14 m awayRef 199947Y002343
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the A272 in Chichester, 14 May 1996
20 m awayRef 199647YA60325
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A272 in Chichester, 19 January 2012
22 m awayRef 2012471200338
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc 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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 30, motorcyclist (125cc and under), 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 2012471200510 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 2012.