A281 crash in Horsham on 21 September 2013 at 07:20 involving a Yamaha Ybr 125 motorcycle
A motorcycle and a Yamaha Ybr 125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A281 in Horsham at 07:20 on Saturday 21 September 2013. The 17-year-old male rider of the Yamaha Ybr 125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Sep 2013
- Saturday, 07:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Yamaha Ybr 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.99928, longitude -0.26986, in the RH13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Horsham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013471305349
- Council area
- Horsham
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 281
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 6 June 1992.
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the A281 in Horsham, 6 June 1992
1 m awayRef 199247NA20303
Slight
Car crash on the A281 in Horsham, 28 March 1986
1 m awayRef 198647NA60131
Serious
MG Metro crash on the A281 in Horsham, 12 January 1990
1 m awayRef 199047NA00023
Serious
Car crash on the A281 in Horsham, 16 October 1983
1 m awayRef 198347NA30755
Slight
Chrysler Voyager crash on the A281 in Horsham, 9 September 2015
7 m awayRef 2015471505203
Slight
Volvo crash on the A281 in Horsham, 13 January 1993
9 m awayRef 199347NA30021
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Yamaha Ybr 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha Ybr 125)
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 2013471305349 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Horsham road accident statistics for 2013.