Serious unclassified road crash in Worthing BN13 on 25 August 2025 at 11:56 involving a Yamaha YZF motorcycle
Two Yamaha YZF motorcycles and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Worthing at 11:56 on Monday 25 August 2025. The 17-year-old female rider of vehicle 1 was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Aug 2025
- Monday, 11:56
- Vehicles
- 3
- Yamaha YZF and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.82949, longitude -0.43523, in the BN13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Worthing
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025471633010
- Council area
- Worthing
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 22 May 2015.
Slight
Peugeot 208 crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 22 May 2015
1 m awayRef 2015471502840
Serious
Toyota C-HR crash on an unclassified road in Worthing, 11 December 2020
4 m awayRef 2020471007656
Slight
Kawasaki crash on a C road in Worthing, 9 October 2003
5 m awayRef 200347K167839
Slight
Audi 80 crash on a C road in Worthing, 3 December 1997
5 m awayRef 199747XA70770
Slight
Renault Clio crash on a C road in Worthing, 16 August 2003
5 m awayRef 200347K165991
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Worthing, 21 November 1997
5 m awayRef 199747XA70750
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha YZF
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Vehicle 2: Yamaha YZF
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousFemale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha YZF)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 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 2025471633010 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Worthing road accident statistics for 2025.