A2025 crash in Adur on 9 July 2018 at 15:25 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Triumph Bonneville motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A2025 in Adur at 15:25 on Monday 9 July 2018. The 49-year-old male rider of the Triumph Bonneville motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Jul 2018
- Monday, 15:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Triumph Bonneville
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.83183, longitude -0.31885, in the BN15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lancing and Sompting. It is one of the crashes that make up the Widewater, Adur, BN15 8AA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Adur
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018471803849
- Council area
- Adur
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2025
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 March 2016.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 18 March 2016
2 m awayRef 2016471601641
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A2025 in Adur, 18 April 2016
4 m awayRef 2016471602269
Slight
Mazda 3 crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 20 September 2013
4 m awayRef 2013471304969
Serious
Ford Transit Custom crash on the A2025 in Adur, 3 January 2023
6 m awayRef 2023471259631
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A2025 in Adur, 11 September 2024
6 m awayRef 2024471490224
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A2025 in Adur, 15 February 1989
6 m awayRef 198947XA90088
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Triumph Bonneville
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 49, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Triumph Bonneville)
- 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 2018471803849 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Adur road accident statistics for 2018.