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Serious A269 crash in Rother on 28 May 1989 at 06:00 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on the A269 in Rother at 06:00 on Sunday 28 May 1989. The 16-year-old male rider was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
28 May 1989
Sunday, 06:00
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84112, longitude 0.47056, in the TN39 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexhill-on-Sea.

Map of where the crash happened in Rother

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198947TA90265
Council area
Rother
Police force
Sussex

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
269
Road type
One way street or slip road
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
A
Second road number
269

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 6 October 1986.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    North West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    16 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 16, motorcyclist, 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 198947TA90265 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 1989.