C road crash in Rother TN32 on 21 May 1985 at 21:45 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on a C road in Rother at 21:45 on Tuesday 21 May 1985. The 16-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 May 1985
- Tuesday, 21:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.00833, longitude 0.52505, 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
- 198547TA50205
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 81 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 June 1990.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Rother, 23 June 1990
81 m awayRef 199047TA00355
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Rother, 13 September 1988
220 m awayRef 198847TA80456
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Rother, 24 May 1983
227 m awayRef 198347TA30216
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Rother, 20 December 2014
337 m awayRef 2014471407518
Slight
Car crash on the A229 in Rother, 29 July 1985
549 m awayRef 198547TA50353
Slight
Renault Trafic crash on the B2244 in Rother, 2 August 2023
554 m awayRef 2023471337580
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, 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 198547TA50205 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.