A259 crash in Rother on 31 July 2007 at 14:15 involving a Volkswagen Golf
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Jul 2007
- Tuesday, 14:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84462, longitude 0.42943, in the TN39 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexhill-on-Sea.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007470706351
- 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
- 259
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 February 2005.
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Rother, 10 February 2005
10 m awayRef 2005470500919
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A259 in Rother, 6 January 2009
30 m awayRef 2009470900128
Serious
Car crash on the A259 in Rother, 13 June 1989
36 m awayRef 198947TA90303
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A259 in Rother, 13 February 1998
61 m awayRef 199847TA80057
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A259 in Rother, 4 June 2002
61 m awayRef 200247K150933
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A259 in Rother, 6 August 2007
91 m awayRef 2007470707484
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 2007470706351 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.