C road crash in Rother TN39 on 13 April 1985 at 09:10 involving a van
A van and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Rother at 09:10 on Saturday 13 April 1985. The 59-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Apr 1985
- Saturday, 09:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.87688, longitude 0.4642, in the TN39 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198547TA50125
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 December 2007.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Rother, 8 December 2007
At the same spotRef 2007470710332
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 14 October 2002
10 m awayRef 200247K155653
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Rother, 4 August 1983
41 m awayRef 198347TA30352
Serious
Lexmoto XFLM 125 crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 1 July 2019
43 m awayRef 2019470853079
Slight
Honda ND50MC crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 13 November 2000
202 m awayRef 200047T129179
Slight
Peugeot Partner crash on a C road in Rother, 13 June 2009
202 m awayRef 2009470904233
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 198547TA50125 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 1985.