A259 crash in Rother on 29 July 1985 at 22:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A259 in Rother at 22:20 on Monday 29 July 1985. The 18-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Jul 1985
- Monday, 22:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84259, longitude 0.4695, in the TN39 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexhill-on-Sea.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198547TA50349
- Council area
- Rother
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 259
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 10 July 2002.
Serious
Car crash on the A269 in Rother, 10 July 2002
10 m awayRef 200247K152046
Serious
Car crash on the A269 in Rother, 27 August 1985
14 m awayRef 198547TA50421
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A269 in Rother, 21 March 2025
30 m awayRef 2025471567721
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A269 in Rother, 31 December 2015
35 m awayRef 2015471507738
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A269 in Rother, 19 May 2000
36 m awayRef 200047T004323
Slight
Car crash on the A269 in Rother, 8 January 1988
51 m awayRef 198847TA80009
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, 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 198547TA50349 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.