B2179 crash in Chichester on 27 December 2020 at 05:57 involving a Yamaha Ybr 125 motorcycle
A Yamaha Ybr 125 motorcycle crashed on the B2179 in Chichester at 05:57 on Sunday 27 December 2020. The 22-year-old female rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 2020
- Sunday, 05:57
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha Ybr 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.78741, longitude -0.87132, in the PO20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chichester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020471010182
- 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
- 2179
- 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
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 20 October 1983.
Serious
Bus crash on the B2179 in Chichester, 20 October 1983
13 m awayRef 198347YA30584
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B2179 in Chichester, 11 April 2018
16 m awayRef 2018471801954
Serious
Ford KA crash on the B2179 in Chichester, 11 July 2009
47 m awayRef 2009470904984
Slight
Leyland crash on the B2179 in Chichester, 9 March 2000
83 m awayRef 200047Y003297
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the B2179 in Chichester, 27 December 2018
105 m awayRef 2018471807202
Serious
Car crash on the B2179 in Chichester, 29 January 1982
123 m awayRef 198247YA20043
Vehicles involved (1)
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
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 22, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha Ybr 125)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2020471010182 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.