A285 crash in Chichester on 23 October 2016 at 15:00 involving an Aprilia Tuono motorcycle
An Aprilia Tuono motorcycle and a Fiat Punto were involved in a crash on the A285 in Chichester at 15:00 on Sunday 23 October 2016. The 60-year-old male rider of the Aprilia Tuono motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Oct 2016
- Sunday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Aprilia Tuono and Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.87085, longitude -0.6967, in the PO18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chichester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016471606375
- Council area
- Chichester
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 285
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 60 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, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 November 2025.
Slight
Mini Clubman crash on the A285 in Chichester, 8 November 2025
32 m awayRef 2025471665618
Slight
Subaru Forester crash on the A285 in Chichester, 26 September 2010
100 m awayRef 2010471006410
Serious
Car crash on the A285 in Chichester, 2 July 1988
113 m awayRef 198847YA80322
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A285 in Chichester, 1 June 2023
153 m awayRef 2023471313859
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A285 in Chichester, 19 December 2003
157 m awayRef 200347K170244
Slight
Car crash on the A285 in Chichester, 14 August 1988
164 m awayRef 198847YA80412
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Aprilia Tuono
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 60, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Aprilia Tuono)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2016471606375 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 2016.