Serious unclassified road crash in Rother TN32 on 15 June 1983 at 08:40 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Rother at 08:40 on Wednesday 15 June 1983. The 21-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Jun 1983
- Wednesday, 08:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.96792, longitude 0.43726, in the TN32 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198347TA30262
- Council area
- Rother
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 563 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 July 1998.
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 7 July 1998
563 m awayRef 199847T000660
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 24 December 2012
909 m awayRef 2012471206900
Serious
Vehicle crash on a C road in Rother, 7 April 1994
951 m awayRef 199447TA40164
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Rother, 26 August 1979
953 m awayRef 197947TA90408
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 9 May 2002
1.0 km awayRef 200247K150649
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 6 July 1981
1.0 km awayRef 198147TA10302
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 21, 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 198347TA30262 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 1983.