Serious B2146 crash in Chichester on 25 August 2012 at 11:37 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B2146 in Chichester at 11:37 on Saturday 25 August 2012. The 72-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Aug 2012
- Saturday, 11:37
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.93429, longitude -0.90488, 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
- 2012471204389
- 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
- 2146
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no 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
- 99%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 1%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 August 2017.
Slight
Rover 75 crash on the B2146 in Chichester, 22 August 2017
9 m awayRef 2017471704768
Serious
Car crash on the B2146 in Chichester, 9 December 1982
50 m awayRef 198247YA20692
Slight
Car crash on the B2146 in Chichester, 6 February 1983
50 m awayRef 198347YA30069
Slight
Car crash on the B2146 in Chichester, 25 February 1988
73 m awayRef 198847YA80099
Serious
Ford crash on an unclassified road in Chichester, 30 August 2020
207 m awayRef 2020470976817
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the B2146 in Chichester, 24 March 2005
212 m awayRef 2005470502066
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 72 years
- Engine capacity
- 230 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 72, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), 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 2012471204389 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.