B2099 crash in Rother on 13 January 2007 at 22:00 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Vauxhall Combo were involved in a crash on the B2099 in Rother at 22:00 on Saturday 13 January 2007. The 20-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Jan 2007
- Saturday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Vauxhall Combo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.04466, longitude 0.40736, in the TN5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ticehurst.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007470700436
- Council area
- Rother
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2099
- Road type
- Single 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
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, 120 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 7 February 1989.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Rother, 7 February 1989
120 m awayRef 198947TA90077
Fatal
Van crash on a C road in Rother, 21 January 1982
130 m awayRef 198247TA20025
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Rother, 31 December 2008
136 m awayRef 2008470810144
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 7 June 1997
139 m awayRef 199747TA70266
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B2099 in Rother, 22 July 1982
200 m awayRef 198247TA20344
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B2099 in Rother, 28 October 2006
201 m awayRef 2006470609134
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Combo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 2007470700436 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 2007.