Unclassified road crash in Arun BN18 on 27 September 2025 at 19:57 involving a Yamaha YZF motorcycle
Two Yamaha YZF motorcycles and an Audi Q3 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Arun at 19:57 on Saturday 27 September 2025. The 17-year-old male rider of vehicle 1 and the 17-year-old male rider of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Sep 2025
- Saturday, 19:57
- Vehicles
- 3
- Yamaha YZF and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81616, longitude -0.58002, in the BN18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Yapton.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025471647383
- Council area
- Arun
- 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
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 February 1995.
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on a C road in Arun, 9 February 1995
6 m awayRef 199547YA50076
Slight
Peugeot 407 crash on a C road in Arun, 23 June 2009
11 m awayRef 2009470904531
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Arun, 3 November 1980
16 m awayRef 198047XA00768
Serious
Yamaha XJR 1300 crash on a C road in Arun, 3 April 2007
17 m awayRef 2007470702840
Slight
MG Metro crash on a C road in Arun, 26 April 1994
26 m awayRef 199447YA40264
Slight
Nissan Stanza crash on a C road in Arun, 29 October 1992
26 m awayRef 199247YA20669
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
- First point of impact
- Back
- 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
- 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
- Front
- 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
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 3: Audi Q3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha YZF)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualty 2: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha YZF)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 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 2025471647383 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Arun road accident statistics for 2025.