C road crash in Rother TN32 on 5 March 1998 at 09:26 involving a Rover Maestro
A Rover Maestro crashed on a C road in Rother at 09:26 on Thursday 5 March 1998. The 37-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Mar 1998
- Thursday, 09:26
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover Maestro
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.00921, longitude 0.50899, in the TN32 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199847TA80095
- Council area
- Rother
- Police force
- Sussex
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 October 1996.
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on a C road in Rother, 1 October 1996
41 m awayRef 199647TA60538
Fatal
Car crash on a C road in Rother, 2 April 1979
140 m awayRef 197947TA90133
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 8 October 2000
182 m awayRef 200047T127738
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 30 January 2018
195 m awayRef 2018471800538
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Rother, 6 March 2004
250 m awayRef 200447K172763
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Rother, 14 December 1985
290 m awayRef 198547TA50632
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover Maestro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,275 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover Maestro)
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 199847TA80095 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.