A259 crash in Rother on 27 December 1986 at 20:57 involving a car

A car crashed on the A259 in Rother at 20:57 on Saturday 27 December 1986. A 15-year-old female passenger and a 15-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 27 Dec 1986; Saturday, 20:57
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 2; 2 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198647TA60607
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: Daylight
Weather: Fine, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
U-turn
Travelling from
North West
Travelling to
North West
Skidding and overturning
Overturned
First point of impact
Offside
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
21 years

Casualties (2)

Casualty 1: Passenger
Slight
Female, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Car passenger
Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
Slight
Female, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Car passenger
Rear seat passenger

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 198647TA60607 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 1986.