Serious A268 crash in Rother on 23 May 1997 at 15:35 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 May 1997
- Friday, 15:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.95142, longitude 0.73157, in the TN31 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rye.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199747TA70236
- Council area
- Rother
- Police force
- Sussex
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 268
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 April 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the A268 in Rother, 16 April 1987
At the same spotRef 198747TA70154
Serious
Ford Puma crash on the A259 in Rother, 22 September 2003
At the same spotRef 200347K170610
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A268 in Rother, 24 May 2021
2 m awayRef 2021471048381
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A268 in Rother, 1 September 1979
10 m awayRef 197947TA90416
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A268 in Rother, 26 October 1998
10 m awayRef 199847T001329
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 26 December 2003
10 m awayRef 200347K170448
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 53, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 199747TA70236 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 1997.