Serious B2138 crash in Chichester on 21 October 2019 at 12:00 involving a Kawasaki ZX600 motorcycle
A Kawasaki ZX600 motorcycle crashed on the B2138 in Chichester at 12:00 on Monday 21 October 2019. The 29-year-old female rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Oct 2019
- Monday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kawasaki ZX600
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.95689, longitude -0.56308, in the RH20 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019470890071
- Council area
- Chichester
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2138
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 October 2014.
Slight
Ford KA crash on the B2138 in Chichester, 24 October 2014
8 m awayRef 2014471406365
Serious
Car crash on the B2138 in Chichester, 3 April 2008
20 m awayRef 2008470802648
Slight
Mitsubishi crash on the B2138 in Chichester, 12 February 2001
21 m awayRef 200147Y133226
Slight
Car crash on the B2138 in Chichester, 3 January 1983
30 m awayRef 198347YA30003
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B2138 in Chichester, 10 June 1984, ref 198447YA40327
49 m awayRef 198447YA40327
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B2138 in Chichester, 10 June 1984, ref 198447YA40303
69 m awayRef 198447YA40303
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ZX600
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousFemale, aged 29, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ZX600)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- 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 2019470890071 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 2019.