C road crash in Rother TN39 on 4 August 1983 at 18:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on a C road in Rother at 18:30 on Thursday 4 August 1983. The 28-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Aug 1983
- Thursday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.87651, longitude 0.46433, in the TN39 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198347TA30352
- 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
- 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
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 July 2019.
Serious
Lexmoto XFLM 125 crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 1 July 2019
3 m awayRef 2019470853079
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Rother, 13 April 1985
41 m awayRef 198547TA50125
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Rother, 8 December 2007
41 m awayRef 2007470710332
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 14 October 2002
45 m awayRef 200247K155653
Slight
Honda ND50MC crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 13 November 2000
165 m awayRef 200047T129179
Slight
Peugeot Partner crash on a C road in Rother, 13 June 2009
165 m awayRef 2009470904233
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 28, motorcyclist (50cc and under), 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 198347TA30352 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.