Serious B2201 crash in Chichester on 23 May 2020 at 12:38 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B2201 in Chichester at 12:38 on Saturday 23 May 2020. The 29-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 May 2020
- Saturday, 12:38
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81461, longitude -0.79009, in the PO20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chichester
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020470952957
- 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
- 2201
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 March 1980.
Serious
Taxi crash on the B2201 in Chichester, 23 March 1980
4 m awayRef 198047YA00141
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the B2201 in Chichester, 15 May 1997
4 m awayRef 199747YA70240
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the B2201 in Chichester, 29 September 1996
4 m awayRef 199647YA60696
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B2201 in Chichester, 30 June 2003
28 m awayRef 200347K164376
Serious
Car crash on the B2201 in Chichester, 15 October 1999
29 m awayRef 199947Y002667
Slight
Hyundai Lantra crash on the B2201 in Chichester, 27 October 2007
70 m awayRef 2007470709380
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 29, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2020470952957 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 2020.