A285 crash in Chichester on 9 July 2018 at 22:25 involving a Honda CBR500RA motorcycle
A Honda CBR500RA motorcycle crashed on the A285 in Chichester at 22:25 on Monday 9 July 2018. The 21-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Jul 2018
- Monday, 22:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda CBR500RA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.91515, longitude -0.66035, in the GU28 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chichester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018471803820
- 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
- Single carriageway
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 October 2012.
Serious
Fiat Ducato crash on the A285 in Chichester, 8 October 2012
10 m awayRef 2012471205290
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A285 in Chichester, 30 November 1991
23 m awayRef 199147YA10801
Serious
Lorry crash on the A285 in Chichester, 8 November 1983
23 m awayRef 198347YA30623
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A285 in Chichester, 13 July 1992
29 m awayRef 199247YA20420
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A285 in Chichester, 2 April 2010
65 m awayRef 2010471002119
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A285 in Chichester, 16 January 1998
65 m awayRef 199847YA80020
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda CBR500RA
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 471 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda CBR500RA)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most 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 2018471803820 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 2018.