A21 crash in Rother on 6 June 1993 at 15:25 involving a Ford Escort
Two Ford Escorts, a Nissan Bluebird and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A21 in Rother at 15:25 on Sunday 6 June 1993. A 57-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 and a 35-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Jun 1993
- Sunday, 15:25
- Vehicles
- 4
- Ford Escort and 3 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.91324, longitude 0.54252, in the TN33 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199347TA30234
- Council area
- Rother
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 21
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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 23 October 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the A21 in Rother, 23 October 1984
At the same spotRef 198447TA40510
Serious
Car crash on the A21 in Rother, 19 December 1985
14 m awayRef 198547TA50642
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A21 in Rother, 5 September 1998
20 m awayRef 199847T001001
Serious
Car crash on the A21 in Rother, 13 September 1981
22 m awayRef 198147TA10441
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the A21 in Rother, 24 January 1998
22 m awayRef 199847TA80034
Slight
Lorry crash on the A21 in Rother, 31 October 1989
22 m awayRef 198947TA90585
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,296 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 3: Nissan Bluebird
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,973 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 4: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 199347TA30234 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 1993.