A2800 crash in Rother on 9 August 2001 at 09:20 involving a Volvo 360
A Volvo 360 crashed on the A2800 in Rother at 09:20 on Thursday 9 August 2001. The 41-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Aug 2001
- Thursday, 09:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo 360
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.97743, longitude 0.60205, in the TN31 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200147T140237
- Council area
- Rother
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2800
- 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
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 May 2005.
Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on the A28 in Rother, 24 May 2005
20 m awayRef 2005470503943
Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on the A28 in Rother, 15 February 2007
22 m awayRef 2007470701539
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A2800 in Rother, 9 June 2000
61 m awayRef 200047T004444
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A28 in Rother, 24 January 2009
64 m awayRef 2009470900654
Slight
Volvo crash on the A28 in Rother, 14 November 1991
86 m awayRef 199147TA10564
Serious
Mercedes C Class crash on the A28 in Rother, 7 February 2022
87 m awayRef 2022471140998
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo 360
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,986 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo 360)
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 200147T140237 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 2001.