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A259 crash in Rother on 27 October 1997 at 20:25 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier

A Vauxhall Cavalier hit a pedestrian on the A259 in Rother at 20:25 on Monday 27 October 1997. A 25-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
27 Oct 1997
Monday, 20:25
Vehicles
1
Vauxhall Cavalier
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.94885, longitude 0.73384, in the TN31 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rye.

Map of where the crash happened in Rother

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199747TA70570
Council area
Rother
Police force
Sussex
Highway authority
East Sussex

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
259
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Trunk road (National Highways)

Junction information

Junction type
Other 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
Dark, street lights lit
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 23 May 1984.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    55 years
    Engine capacity
    1,998 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    7 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Female, aged 25, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, not crossing
    Pedestrian movement
    In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)

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 199747TA70570 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.