C road crash in Rother TN39 on 7 October 1985 at 15:35 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in Rother at 15:35 on Monday 7 October 1985. An 11-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Oct 1985
- Monday, 15:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.85717, longitude 0.46459, 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
- 198547TA50495
- Council area
- Rother
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
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The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 July 1997.
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Renault 25 crash on a C road in Rother, 23 January 1990
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Lifan LF 125 crash on a C road in Rother, 7 January 2012
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
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 198547TA50495 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.