A265 crash in Rother on 26 February 2008 at 18:37 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306 and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A265 in Rother at 18:37 on Tuesday 26 February 2008. The 45-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Feb 2008
- Tuesday, 18:37
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 306 and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.99711, longitude 0.3838, in the TN19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Burwash.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008470801828
- Council area
- Rother
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 265
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 16 January 1998.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A265 in Rother, 16 January 1998
10 m awayRef 199847TA80025
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on the A265 in Rother, 5 April 1992
10 m awayRef 199247TA20143
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A265 in Rother, 25 June 1994
28 m awayRef 199447TA40330
Serious
Volkswagen 1300 crash on the A265 in Rother, 11 May 1992
32 m awayRef 199247TA20210
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A265 in Rother, 27 February 2001
36 m awayRef 200147T133957
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A269 in Rother, 18 November 2001
36 m awayRef 200147T144374
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,761 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 45, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 2008470801828 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 2008.