A21 crash in Rother on 14 April 1998 at 17:05 involving a Honda Integra
A Honda Integra and a lorry were involved in a crash on the A21 in Rother at 17:05 on Tuesday 14 April 1998. The 33-year-old male driver of the Honda Integra and the 36-year-old male driver of the lorry were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Apr 1998
- Tuesday, 17:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Integra and lorry
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.0289, longitude 0.46713, in the TN19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199847T000112
- Council area
- Rother
- Police force
- Sussex
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 21
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a fatal crash on 5 January 2000.
Fatal
Mercedes C Class crash on the A21 in Rother, 5 January 2000
At the same spotRef 200047T003702
Serious
Hyundai Coupe crash on the A21 in Rother, 16 May 1998
At the same spotRef 199847T000328
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A21 in Rother, 4 May 2014
16 m awayRef 2014471402429
Serious
Lorry crash on the A21 in Rother, 9 July 2021
20 m awayRef 2021471067924
Fatal
DAF Trucks Fad 85CF crash on the A21 in Rother, 18 July 2013
20 m awayRef 2013471303705
Serious
Honda crash on the A21 in Rother, 5 July 1997
22 m awayRef 199747TA70314
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Integra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,488 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Integra)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 2 (Lorry)
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 199847T000112 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 1998.