A21 crash in Rother on 10 May 1981 at 10:10 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A21 in Rother at 10:10 on Sunday 10 May 1981. The 60-year-old male driver of vehicle 2, a 58-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 and the 27-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 May 1981
- Sunday, 10:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.91537, longitude 0.53979, in the TN33 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198147TA10202
- Council area
- Rother
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 21
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 October 2009.
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A21 in Rother, 5 October 2009
20 m awayRef 2009470907333
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A21 in Rother, 7 June 1997
36 m awayRef 199747TA70264
Slight
Car crash on the A21 in Rother, 7 August 1983
71 m awayRef 198347TA30393
Serious
Volvo crash on the A21 in Rother, 18 December 1998
86 m awayRef 199847T001701
Serious
Peugeot 208 crash on the A21 in Rother, 2 August 2018
94 m awayRef 2018471804271
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A21 in Rother, 21 October 1996
99 m awayRef 199647TA60580
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198147TA10202 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.