A259 crash in Rother on 10 December 1995 at 12:47 involving a Renault Laguna
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Dec 1995
- Sunday, 12:47
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Laguna and car
- Casualties
- 5
- 5 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.92027, longitude 0.70569, in the TN36 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199547TA50607
- Council area
- Rother
- Police force
- Sussex
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 259
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 29 October 1989.
Serious
Car crash on the A259 in Rother, 29 October 1989
At the same spotRef 198947TA90581
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A259 in Rother, 1 June 1996
At the same spotRef 199647TA60297
Serious
Car crash on the A259 in Rother, 30 April 2019
8 m awayRef 2019471902244
Slight
Peugeot Tweet crash on the A259 in Rother, 8 August 2022
9 m awayRef 2022471206912
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A259 in Rother, 23 July 1995
10 m awayRef 199547TA50330
Slight
Suzuki GSXR 600 crash on the A259 in Rother, 4 May 2009
10 m awayRef 2009470903392
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Laguna
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,783 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (5)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Laguna)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 5: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- 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 199547TA50607 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 1995.