A2590 crash in Rother on 2 November 2001 at 11:14 involving a Nissan Micra
A Nissan Micra and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A2590 in Rother at 11:14 on Friday 2 November 2001. The 75-year-old female driver of the Nissan Micra and the 28-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Nov 2001
- Friday, 11:14
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Micra and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84646, longitude 0.45752, in the TN39 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexhill-on-Sea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bexhill Collington, Rother, TN39 3QE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200147T143409
- 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
- 2590
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 2098
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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 11 May 2002.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A259 in Rother, 11 May 2002
At the same spotRef 200247K143409
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A259 in Rother, 29 October 2018
16 m awayRef 2018471805945
Slight
Suzuki Ignis crash on the A259 in Rother, 4 March 2014
19 m awayRef 2014471401222
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A259 in Rother, 29 December 2019
21 m awayRef 2019470913947
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A259 in Rother, 18 November 1982
22 m awayRef 198247TA20598
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A259 in Rother, 6 January 2001
22 m awayRef 200147T131573
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 75 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,348 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 75, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Micra)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 200147T143409 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.