Serious A272 crash in Mid Sussex on 23 March 2018 at 01:00 involving a Honda CBF125M motorcycle
A Honda CBF125M motorcycle crashed on the A272 in Mid Sussex at 01:00 on Friday 23 March 2018. The 19-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Mar 2018
- Friday, 01:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda CBF125M
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.00013, longitude -0.12494, in the RH16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cuckfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cuckfield, Bolney & Ansty, Mid Sussex, RH16 4BS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Sussex
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018471801596
- Council area
- Mid Sussex
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 272
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 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
- 99%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 1%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 November 1991.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A272 in Mid Sussex, 10 November 1991
13 m awayRef 199147HA10508
Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on the A272 in Mid Sussex, 30 July 2023
13 m awayRef 2023471337159
Slight
Ford crash on the A272 in Mid Sussex, 8 May 1997
28 m awayRef 199747HA70292
Serious
Car crash on the A272 in Mid Sussex, 12 September 1985
28 m awayRef 198547HA50436
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A272 in Mid Sussex, 4 April 2005
35 m awayRef 2005470502316
Serious
Suzuki crash on the A272 in Mid Sussex, 18 January 2009
37 m awayRef 2009470900470
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda CBF125M
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda CBF125M)
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 2018471801596 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Sussex road accident statistics for 2018.