A259 crash in Adur on 17 July 2014 at 12:15 involving a Qingqi QM 125 GY motorcycle
A Qingqi QM 125 GY motorcycle and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on the A259 in Adur at 12:15 on Thursday 17 July 2014. The 25-year-old male rider of the Qingqi QM 125 GY motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jul 2014
- Thursday, 12:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Qingqi QM 125 GY and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82012, longitude -0.32653, in the BN15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lancing and Sompting. It is one of the crashes that make up the Churchill, Adur, BN15 8RT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Adur
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014471404058
- Council area
- Adur
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 259
- 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
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 May 2018.
Slight
BMW M1 crash on the A259 in Adur, 21 May 2018
4 m awayRef 2018471802738
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A259 in Adur, 10 August 1998
4 m awayRef 199847X000914
Slight
Kia Sportage crash on the A259 in Adur, 28 November 2025
5 m awayRef 2025471675360
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A259 in Adur, 22 February 2014
5 m awayRef 2014471401014
Slight
Mazda 2 crash on the A259 in Adur, 8 June 2024
6 m awayRef 2024471453323
Slight
Taxi crash on the A259 in Adur, 3 October 2018
6 m awayRef 2018471805476
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Qingqi QM 125 GY
Motorcycle 125cc 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
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 25, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Qingqi QM 125 GY)
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 2014471404058 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Adur road accident statistics for 2014.