Serious A272 crash in Chichester on 13 May 2015 at 22:30 involving a motorcycle
Two motorcycles and a car were involved in a crash on the A272 in Chichester at 22:30 on Wednesday 13 May 2015. The 26-year-old male rider of vehicle 2 was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 May 2015
- Wednesday, 22:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- Motorcycle and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.98887, longitude -0.75169, in the GU29 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Midhurst, Chichester, GU29 9JW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Chichester
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015471502659
- 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
- 272
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 slight injury crash on 17 January 2005.
Slight
Volvo V40 crash on the A272 in Chichester, 17 January 2005
4 m awayRef 2005470500233
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A272 in Chichester, 23 July 2003
4 m awayRef 200347K165157
Slight
Leyland DAF 400 crash on the A272 in Chichester, 7 May 1991
4 m awayRef 199147YA10291
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A272 in Chichester, 15 February 1993
6 m awayRef 199347YA30103
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A272 in Chichester, 13 May 2004
6 m awayRef 200447K174991
Slight
Skoda Superb crash on the A272 in Chichester, 14 April 2025
7 m awayRef 2025471578486
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 40 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- 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
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 26, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (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 2015471502659 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 2015.