B2204 crash in Rother on 30 July 1985 at 17:15 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B2204 in Rother at 17:15 on Tuesday 30 July 1985. The 62-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 68-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 were 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
- 30 Jul 1985
- Tuesday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.89815, longitude 0.39706, in the TN33 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198547TA50356
- Council area
- Rother
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2204
- 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, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 July 2012.
Slight
Car crash on the A271 in Rother, 30 July 2012
22 m awayRef 2012471203897
Slight
Kawasaki ZX900 crash on the A271 in Rother, 22 March 2003
50 m awayRef 200347K161156
Slight
Mazda MX-5 crash on the A271 in Rother, 12 February 2011
51 m awayRef 2011471100949
Fatal
Ford Escort crash on the A271 in Rother, 5 December 1994
58 m awayRef 199447TA40635
Slight
Skoda Favorit crash on the A271 in Rother, 8 November 2002
60 m awayRef 200247K156659
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A271 in Rother, 15 December 2005
78 m awayRef 2005470510811
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 68 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 62, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 68, 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 198547TA50356 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.