A259 crash in Rother on 21 June 1985 at 09:15 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A259 in Rother at 09:15 on Friday 21 June 1985. The 21-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 24-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 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
- 21 Jun 1985
- Friday, 09:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84466, longitude 0.40483, 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
- 198547TA50256
- Council area
- Rother
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 259
- 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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 July 2014.
Slight
Yamaha YZF R125 crash on the A259 in Rother, 24 July 2014
6 m awayRef 2014471404220
Slight
Hyundai Getz crash on the A259 in Rother, 3 January 2013
33 m awayRef 2013471300035
Fatal
Toyota Celica crash on the A259 in Rother, 10 January 2000
36 m awayRef 200047T003708
Slight
BMW Z4 crash on the A259 in Rother, 6 April 2021
37 m awayRef 2021471032943
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A259 in Rother, 30 May 1993
40 m awayRef 199347TA30221
Slight
Toyota Auris crash on the A259 in Rother, 17 April 2025
43 m awayRef 2025471579606
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, 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 198547TA50256 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.