B2244 crash in Rother on 21 September 2000 at 19:20 involving a Vauxhall Nova
A Vauxhall Nova and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on the B2244 in Rother at 19:20 on Thursday 21 September 2000. The 20-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Nova was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Sep 2000
- Thursday, 19:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Nova and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.96142, longitude 0.52838, in the TN32 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200047T127073
- Council area
- Rother
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2244
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Stop sign
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 2089
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 October 2000.
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B2244 in Rother, 6 October 2000
At the same spotRef 200047T127560
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the B2165 in Rother, 9 December 2020
13 m awayRef 2020471005903
Slight
Volvo crash on the A229 in Rother, 21 June 1991
14 m awayRef 199147TA10286
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B2244 in Rother, 11 April 1993
14 m awayRef 199347TA30144
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B2244 in Rother, 17 March 2016
19 m awayRef 2016471601596
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A229 in Rother, 11 May 1987
28 m awayRef 198747TA70197
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Nova
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Nova)
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 200047T127073 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.