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Unclassified road crash in Rother TN35 on 20 December 1980 at 10:45 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Rother at 10:45 on Saturday 20 December 1980. A 70-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.

Severity
Slight
Date
20 Dec 1980
Saturday, 10:45
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.90166, longitude 0.61458, in the TN35 postcode district.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198047TA00633
Council area
Rother
Police force
Sussex

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
70 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Using private drive or entrance
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
C

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 January 1979.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Reversing
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    30 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 70, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, not crossing
    Pedestrian movement
    Walking along in carriageway, facing traffic

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 198047TA00633 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rother road accident statistics for 1980.