C road crash in Rother TN33 on 31 October 1994 at 14:20 involving a Volvo lorry
A Volvo lorry and a Mercedes bus were involved in a crash on a C road in Rother at 14:20 on Monday 31 October 1994. A 40-year-old female passenger in the Mercedes bus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Oct 1994
- Monday, 14:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volvo and Mercedes
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.93964, longitude 0.45229, in the TN33 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199447TA40616
- Council area
- Rother
- Police force
- Sussex
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 94 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 July 2005.
Slight
Jaguar X Type crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 14 July 2005
94 m awayRef 2005470505675
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 5 May 2021
102 m awayRef 2021471042334
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Rother, 26 August 1979
114 m awayRef 197947TA90409
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 9 February 2021
126 m awayRef 2021471020439
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 5 November 1988
168 m awayRef 198847TA80564
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Rother, 19 February 1988
278 m awayRef 198847TA80085
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- 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
- 34 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,972 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 40, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated 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 199447TA40616 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 1994.