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Unclassified road crash in Rother TN33 on 31 August 1998 at 14:10 involving a Yamaha TDM 850 motorcycle

A Yamaha TDM 850 motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Rother at 14:10 on Monday 31 August 1998. The 47-year-old male rider and a 45-year-old female passenger were 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
31 Aug 1998
Monday, 14:10
Vehicles
1
Yamaha TDM 850
Casualties
2
2 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.85344, longitude 0.3932, in the TN33 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Rother

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199847T000981
Council area
Rother
Police force
Sussex
Highway authority
East Sussex

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
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
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
Carriageway hazards
Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 November 1984.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Yamaha TDM 850

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    47 years
    Engine capacity
    849 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    0 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Slight

    Male, aged 47, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Yamaha TDM 850)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 45, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Yamaha TDM 850)

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 199847T000981 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.