Unclassified road crash in Worthing BN13 on 16 December 2014 at 18:18 involving a Citroen DS3
A motorcycle and a Citroen DS3 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Worthing at 18:18 on Tuesday 16 December 2014. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 2014
- Tuesday, 18:18
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Citroen DS3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.83386, longitude -0.39571, in the BN13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worthing. It is one of the crashes that make up the Offington, Worthing, BN14 9BD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Worthing
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014471407402
- Council area
- Worthing
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 July 2024.
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Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 13 July 2024
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 1 July 1983
22 m awayRef 198347XA30434
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Ford Granada crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 24 August 1998
27 m awayRef 199847X000943
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 16 November 1982
61 m awayRef 198247XA20901
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Opel crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 19 February 2004
61 m awayRef 200447K172089
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Worthing, 28 March 1988
61 m awayRef 198847XA80231
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen DS3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, 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 2014471407402 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Worthing road accident statistics for 2014.