C road crash in Rother TN32 on 31 January 1991 at 00:30 involving a Jaguar XJ Series
A Jaguar XJ Series crashed on a C road in Rother at 00:30 on Thursday 31 January 1991. The 21-year-old male driver, a 16-year-old male passenger and a 24-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Jan 1991
- Thursday, 00:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Jaguar XJ Series
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.9856, longitude 0.44787, in the TN32 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199147TA10047
- Council area
- Rother
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Jaguar XJ Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Jaguar XJ Series)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Jaguar XJ Series)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Jaguar XJ Series)
- 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 199147TA10047 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 1991.