A28 crash in Rother on 29 September 1997 at 07:50 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on the A28 in Rother at 07:50 on Monday 29 September 1997. The 54-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Sep 1997
- Monday, 07:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Sierra and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.00665, longitude 0.61363, in the TN31 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199747TA70522
- Council area
- Rother
- Police force
- Sussex
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 28
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 268
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 12 March 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A28 in Rother, 12 March 1989
At the same spotRef 198947TA90125
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Car crash on the A28 in Rother, 14 September 1989
At the same spotRef 198947TA90503
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Rover 400 Series crash on the A28 in Rother, 15 November 2004
At the same spotRef 200447K180878
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Ford Fiesta crash on the A28 in Rother, 18 June 2002
At the same spotRef 200247K151216
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Rover 600 Series crash on the A28 in Rother, 8 April 2010
10 m awayRef 2010471002237
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Mazda 121 crash on the A268 in Rother, 8 June 2002
10 m awayRef 200247K151760
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,593 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,296 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
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 199747TA70522 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.