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Serious unclassified road crash in Rother TN40 on 4 August 1996 at 13:15 involving a car

A car hit thirteen pedestrians on an unclassified road in Rother at 13:15 on Sunday 4 August 1996. There were fifteen casualties: two people were seriously injured and thirteen were slightly injured. Thirteen of them were pedestrians.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
4 Aug 1996
Sunday, 13:15
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
15
2 seriously injured, 13 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.8399, longitude 0.48598, in the TN40 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexhill-on-Sea.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199647TA60432
Council area
Rother
Police force
Sussex
Highway authority
East Sussex

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 August 2001.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Reversing
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    Lane or location
    Not on carriageway
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    80 years

Casualties (15)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Male, aged 80, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Serious

    Female, aged 77, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

    Car passenger
    Front seat passenger

  • Casualty 3: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 35, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

  • Casualty 4: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 5, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

  • Casualty 5: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 4, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

  • Casualty 6: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

  • Casualty 7: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Female, aged 40, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

  • Casualty 8: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Female, aged 32, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

  • Casualty 9: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Female, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

  • Casualty 10: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 36, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

  • Casualty 11: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Female, aged 6, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

  • Casualty 12: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Female, aged 5, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

  • Casualty 13: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 6, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

  • Casualty 14: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Female, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

  • Casualty 15: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 6, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

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 199647TA60432 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 1996.