C road crash in Rother TN32 on 15 January 1981 at 12:05 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on a C road in Rother at 12:05 on Thursday 15 January 1981. The 20-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Jan 1981
- Thursday, 12:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.00634, longitude 0.53806, in the TN32 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198147TA10029
- Council area
- Rother
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 April 1989.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 27 April 1989
22 m awayRef 198947TA90214
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Rother, 6 October 1988
45 m awayRef 198847TA80531
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 16 November 2018
114 m awayRef 2018471806342
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Car crash on a C road in Rother, 23 June 1983
264 m awayRef 198347TA30276
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Peugeot 406 crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 23 December 2005
282 m awayRef 2005470511115
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Peugeot 406 crash on a C road in Rother, 16 February 2000
287 m awayRef 200047T003904
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 198147TA10029 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 1981.