A286 crash in Chichester on 6 August 2014 at 16:15 involving a Yamaha YQ 50 Aerox motorcycle
A Yamaha YQ 50 Aerox motorcycle and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A286 in Chichester at 16:15 on Wednesday 6 August 2014. The 42-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra and the 30-year-old male rider of the Yamaha YQ 50 Aerox motorcycle were 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
- 6 Aug 2014
- Wednesday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha YQ 50 Aerox and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82699, longitude -0.7845, in the PO19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chichester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chichester Central, Chichester, PO19 8GS area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014471404499
- Council area
- Chichester
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 286
- 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, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 July 1983.
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A286 in Chichester, 11 July 1983
5 m awayRef 198347YA30353
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the A27 in Chichester, 28 August 1998
5 m awayRef 199847Y000848
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A286 in Chichester, 10 March 2006
5 m awayRef 2006470602190
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A286 in Chichester, 22 October 1992
5 m awayRef 199247YA20637
Serious
Mercedes A Class crash on an unclassified road in Chichester, 14 October 2025
6 m awayRef 2025471654322
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A286 in Chichester, 11 August 2014
7 m awayRef 2014471404694
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha YQ 50 Aerox
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
Casualty 2: Rider
SlightMale, aged 30, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha YQ 50 Aerox)
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 2014471404499 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 2014.