Serious A259 crash in Adur on 16 October 2018 at 08:48 involving a Yamaha Ybr 125 motorcycle
A Yamaha Ybr 125 motorcycle and a Skoda Octavia were involved in a crash on the A259 in Adur at 08:48 on Tuesday 16 October 2018. The 24-year-old male rider of the Yamaha Ybr 125 motorcycle was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Oct 2018
- Tuesday, 08:48
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha Ybr 125 and Skoda Octavia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.8312, longitude -0.23918, in the BN42 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southwick. It is one of the crashes that make up the Southwick Green, Adur, BN42 4DF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Adur
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018471805716
- 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
- 259
- 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
- 98%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 2%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 December 2017.
Slight
BMW X1 crash on the A259 in Adur, 12 December 2017
4 m awayRef 2017471707053
Slight
Volkswagen Beetle crash on an unclassified road in Adur, 15 December 2015
4 m awayRef 2015471600141
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A259 in Adur, 26 August 1996
4 m awayRef 199647XA60419
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Adur, 9 December 2022
6 m awayRef 2022471252943
Slight
Volkswagen 1000 crash on the A259 in Adur, 31 January 2001
6 m awayRef 200147X132929
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A259 in Adur, 15 July 1979
14 m awayRef 197947XA90450
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha Ybr 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Skoda Octavia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 24, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha Ybr 125)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2018471805716 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.