A21 crash in Rother on 2 September 2004 at 10:49 involving a Mercedes Sprinter van
A Mercedes Sprinter van and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A21 in Rother at 10:49 on Thursday 2 September 2004. The 28-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa and a 52-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Corsa were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Sep 2004
- Thursday, 10:49
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes Sprinter and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.99298, longitude 0.47865, in the TN32 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200447K178490
- 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
- 21
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 September 1997.
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the A21 in Rother, 19 September 1997
14 m awayRef 199747TA70498
Serious
Volkswagen Jetta crash on the A21 in Rother, 31 October 1994
14 m awayRef 199447TA40571
Slight
Volvo crash on the A21 in Rother, 24 August 1995
20 m awayRef 199547TA50391
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the A21 in Rother, 10 March 1994
41 m awayRef 199447TA40123
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A21 in Rother, 8 November 1995
45 m awayRef 199547TA50551
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A21 in Rother, 31 May 2022
46 m awayRef 2022471183753
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,151 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200447K178490 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 2004.