C road crash in Rother TN35 on 5 September 1996 at 05:15 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on a C road in Rother at 05:15 on Thursday 5 September 1996. The 27-year-old male rider was 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
- 5 Sep 1996
- Thursday, 05:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.89529, longitude 0.59801, in the TN35 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199647TA60488
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 45 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 April 1987.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Rother, 24 April 1987
45 m awayRef 198747TA70163
Slight
Citroen AX crash on an unclassified road in Hastings, 12 April 2002
58 m awayRef 200247T148995
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on an unclassified road in Hastings, 28 May 2002
72 m awayRef 200247K151210
Slight
Citroen BX crash on an unclassified road in Hastings, 13 July 1999
73 m awayRef 199947T002773
Slight
Dacia Duster crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 7 October 2024
83 m awayRef 2024471500781
Serious
Scooter crash on a C road in Rother, 16 February 1980
143 m awayRef 198047TA00077
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 27, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 199647TA60488 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.