Unclassified road crash in Rother TN40 on 14 July 2000 at 23:41 involving a Ford Orion
A Ford Orion and a Vauxhall Cavalier were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Rother at 23:41 on Friday 14 July 2000. The 18-year-old female driver of the Ford Orion 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 T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Jul 2000
- Friday, 23:41
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Orion and Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.83963, longitude 0.48273, in the TN40 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexhill-on-Sea.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200047T004603
- Council area
- Rother
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 40 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 December 1996.
Slight
Renault 19 crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 14 December 1996
40 m awayRef 199647TA60699
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 5 September 1982
61 m awayRef 198247TA20446
Slight
Land Rover 110 crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 13 October 2000
76 m awayRef 200047T127840
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 30 November 1998
81 m awayRef 199847T001550
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 25 May 1993
81 m awayRef 199347TA30216
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 12 November 2015
87 m awayRef 2015471506690
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Orion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Orion)
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 200047T004603 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 2000.