A259 crash in Worthing on 22 October 2025 at 18:30 involving a Skoda Superb
A Skoda Superb and a Sinnis ZS 125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A259 in Worthing at 18:30 on Wednesday 22 October 2025. The 18-year-old male rider of the Sinnis ZS 125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Oct 2025
- Wednesday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Skoda Superb and Sinnis ZS 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81272, longitude -0.35793, in the BN11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worthing. It is one of the crashes that make up the Selden, Worthing, BN11 2DG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Worthing
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025471657844
- Council area
- Worthing
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 259
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 November 2020.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A259 in Worthing, 16 November 2020
2 m awayRef 2020470999499
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Worthing, 19 November 1987
4 m awayRef 198747XA70791
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A259 in Worthing, 20 June 2018
4 m awayRef 2018471803376
Slight
LML Star crash on the A259 in Worthing, 4 August 2014
4 m awayRef 2014471404480
Slight
Van crash on the A259 in Worthing, 22 February 1988
7 m awayRef 198847XA80159
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Worthing, 21 April 1979
13 m awayRef 197947XA90239
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Superb
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Sinnis ZS 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Sinnis ZS 125)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most 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 2025471657844 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.