A283 crash in Chichester on 25 July 2025 at 04:12 involving a Suzuki GSXR motorcycle
A Suzuki GSXR motorcycle crashed on the A283 in Chichester at 04:12 on Friday 25 July 2025. The 19-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Jul 2025
- Friday, 04:12
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki GSXR
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.0381, longitude -0.6393, in the GU28 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chichester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025471620583
- Council area
- Chichester
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 283
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 7 November 2021.
Slight
Porsche Cayman crash on the A283 in Chichester, 7 November 2021
1 m awayRef 2021471107341
Serious
Car crash on the A283 in Chichester, 17 February 1989
13 m awayRef 198947YA90118
Slight
Car crash on the A283 in Chichester, 26 July 1986
58 m awayRef 198647YA60413
Serious
Alfa Romeo 159 crash on the A283 in Chichester, 7 July 2017
115 m awayRef 2017471703762
Serious
Car crash on the A283 in Chichester, 3 January 1994
115 m awayRef 199447YA40005
Serious
Car crash on the A283 in Chichester, 17 September 1980
119 m awayRef 198047YA00515
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSXR
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Any animal (except ridden horse)
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSXR)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 km
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 2025471620583 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 2025.