A21 crash in Rother on 10 July 1991 at 20:15 involving a Vauxhall Chevette
A Vauxhall Chevette and a Nissan D21 van were involved in a crash on the A21 in Rother at 20:15 on Wednesday 10 July 1991. The 21-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Chevette was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Jul 1991
- Wednesday, 20:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Chevette and Nissan D21
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.01759, longitude 0.47038, in the TN19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hurst Green.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199147TA10324
- Council area
- Rother
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 21
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 March 1995.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A21 in Rother, 1 March 1995
At the same spotRef 199547TA50096
Slight
Scania crash on the A21 in Rother, 19 August 2021
6 m awayRef 2021471078878
Slight
Car crash on the A21 in Rother, 15 July 1987
10 m awayRef 198747TA70315
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Ford Focus crash on the A21 in Rother, 17 November 2018
20 m awayRef 2018471806356
Slight
Suzuki SX4 crash on the A21 in Rother, 12 June 2025
27 m awayRef 2025471601956
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Ford Fiesta crash on the A21 in Rother, 9 December 1993
28 m awayRef 199347TA30568
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Chevette
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,256 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan D21
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Chevette)
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 199147TA10324 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.