Serious A285 crash in Chichester on 7 September 2013 at 12:50 involving a Honda CB600F motorcycle
A car and a Honda CB600F motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A285 in Chichester at 12:50 on Saturday 7 September 2013. The 20-year-old male rider of the Honda CB600F motorcycle 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
- 7 Sep 2013
- Saturday, 12:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Honda CB600F
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.87289, longitude -0.68865, 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
- 2013471304713
- 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
- 285
- 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, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 30 April 2020.
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Toyota Hilux crash on the A285 in Chichester, 30 April 2020
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Suzuki Liana crash on the A285 in Chichester, 19 August 2009
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Slight
Car crash on the A285 in Chichester, 14 September 2001
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Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A285 in Chichester, 1 December 2020
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Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A285 in Chichester, 28 November 2002
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Slight
Toyota Verso crash on the A285 in Chichester, 10 November 2024
67 m awayRef 2024471517963
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Honda CB600F
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 20, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Honda CB600F)
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 2013471304713 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 2013.