Serious C road crash in Rother TN31 on 28 October 2000 at 16:37 involving a Volvo 340
A Volvo 340 crashed on a C road in Rother at 16:37 on Saturday 28 October 2000. The 34-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Oct 2000
- Saturday, 16:37
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo 340
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.96859, longitude 0.74842, in the TN31 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200047T128287
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 20 June 2002.
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 20 June 2002
36 m awayRef 200247K151218
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on a C road in Rother, 22 October 2009
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Slight
Rover Metro crash on a C road in Rother, 7 October 1992
42 m awayRef 199247TA20482
Serious
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Rother, 5 November 1992
150 m awayRef 199247TA20527
Serious
Mercedes Sprinter crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 20 April 2013
161 m awayRef 2013471302010
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Rother, 30 January 2012
175 m awayRef 2012471200582
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo 340
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,397 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo 340)
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 200047T128287 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.