Unclassified road crash in Rother TN31 on 26 October 2000 at 14:15 involving a Volvo 940
A Volvo 940 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Rother at 14:15 on Thursday 26 October 2000. A 95-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Oct 2000
- Thursday, 14:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo 940
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.95201, longitude 0.73035, in the TN31 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rye.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200047T128394
- 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
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 November 2020.
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A268 in Rother, 3 November 2020
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Honda Civic crash on the A268 in Rother, 1 August 2025
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Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the A268 in Rother, 8 January 2015
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Slight
Renault Espace crash on the A268 in Rother, 20 April 1996
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Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A268 in Rother, 17 August 2007
14 m awayRef 2007470706853
Slight
Yamaha Ybr 125 crash on the A268 in Rother, 22 November 2019
22 m awayRef 2019470901549
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo 940
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,986 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 95, hit by vehicle 1 (Volvo 940)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
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 200047T128394 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.