C road crash in Rother TN32 on 19 February 1999 at 02:03 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on a C road in Rother at 02:03 on Friday 19 February 1999. The 30-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Feb 1999
- Friday, 02:03
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.98971, longitude 0.57538, in the TN32 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199947T002016
- Council area
- Rother
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 347 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 October 1989.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Rother, 31 October 1989
347 m awayRef 198947TA90588
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427 m awayRef 199447TA40212
Serious
Mitsubishi Outlander crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 17 May 2024
536 m awayRef 2024471444204
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Rother, 1 August 1980
544 m awayRef 198047TA00374
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 24 May 2018
544 m awayRef 2018471802803
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Rother, 9 August 1981
563 m awayRef 198147TA10370
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 199947T002016 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 1999.