A283 crash in Horsham on 20 July 2016 at 19:45 involving a Harley-Davidson FLS motorcycle
A motorcycle and a Harley-Davidson FLS motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A283 in Horsham at 19:45 on Wednesday 20 July 2016. The 51-year-old female rider of the Harley-Davidson FLS motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jul 2016
- Wednesday, 19:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Harley-Davidson FLS
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.8817, longitude -0.31687, in the BN44 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Horsham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016471604363
- 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
- 283
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 September 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A283 in Horsham, 27 September 1988
At the same spotRef 198847XA80656
Serious
Car crash on the A283 in Horsham, 27 August 1981
10 m awayRef 198147XA10605
Serious
Suzuki GSXR 750 crash on the A283 in Horsham, 3 July 2005
10 m awayRef 2005470505223
Serious
Suzuki crash on the A2830 in Horsham, 7 December 2000
10 m awayRef 200047N130686
Slight
Citroen Dispatch crash on the A283 in Horsham, 6 June 2017
14 m awayRef 2017471703114
Slight
Lorry crash on the A283 in Horsham, 21 November 1984
14 m awayRef 198447MA40286
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 73 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,690 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Harley-Davidson FLS
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,585 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 51, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Harley-Davidson FLS)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
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 2016471604363 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 2016.