Serious unclassified road crash in Rother TN5 on 7 June 1997 at 13:00 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Rother at 13:00 on Saturday 7 June 1997. A 3-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Jun 1997
- Saturday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.04587, longitude 0.4081, in the TN5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ticehurst.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199747TA70266
- 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
- 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, 40 metres away, was a fatal crash on 21 January 1982.
Fatal
Van crash on a C road in Rother, 21 January 1982
40 m awayRef 198247TA20025
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Rother, 7 February 1989
51 m awayRef 198947TA90077
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B2099 in Rother, 28 October 2006
64 m awayRef 2006470609134
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on the B2099 in Rother, 10 July 2012
67 m awayRef 2012471203501
Serious
Car crash on the B2099 in Rother, 7 February 1984
72 m awayRef 198447TA40045
Serious
Car crash on the B2099 in Rother, 1 July 1980
73 m awayRef 198047TA00311
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 77 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 3, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 199747TA70266 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.