A281 crash in Horsham on 23 July 2015 at 19:45 involving a Piaggio NRG motorcycle
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jul 2015
- Thursday, 19:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Piaggio NRG
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.09482, longitude -0.47719, in the RH12 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015471504233
- Council area
- Horsham
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 281
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 April 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the A281 in Horsham, 28 April 1984
7 m awayRef 198447NA40173
Slight
Car crash on the A281 in Horsham, 30 October 1987
7 m awayRef 198747NA70596
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A281 in Horsham, 31 August 1993
7 m awayRef 199347NA30563
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the A281 in Horsham, 3 March 2008
14 m awayRef 2008470801816
Serious
Car crash on the A281 in Horsham, 1 July 1986
17 m awayRef 198647NA60322
Fatal
Car crash on the A281 in Horsham, 13 March 1987
17 m awayRef 198747NA70110
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Piaggio NRG
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Piaggio NRG)
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 2015471504233 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 2015.