Serious unclassified road crash in Chichester PO18 on 12 October 2025 at 14:32 involving a Volvo XC60
A Volvo XC60 and a Lexmoto TR motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Chichester at 14:32 on Sunday 12 October 2025. The 31-year-old female rider of the Lexmoto TR motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Oct 2025
- Sunday, 14:32
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volvo XC60 and Lexmoto TR
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84296, longitude -0.88194, in the PO18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hambrook and Nutbourne.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025471653573
- Council area
- Chichester
- 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
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 259
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Very 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 2 March 2016.
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A259 in Chichester, 2 March 2016
4 m awayRef 2016471601296
Serious
Volvo 940 crash on the A259 in Chichester, 3 March 1995
4 m awayRef 199547YA50114
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A259 in Chichester, 20 January 2004
4 m awayRef 200447K171283
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Chichester, 29 October 1990
4 m awayRef 199047YA00835
Slight
Van crash on the A27 in Chichester, 6 May 1988
4 m awayRef 198847YA80224
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A259 in Chichester, 10 June 1996
4 m awayRef 199647YA60395
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volvo XC60
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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 88 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,969 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Lexmoto TR
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
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousFemale, aged 31, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Lexmoto TR)
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2025471653573 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.