A268 crash in Rother on 6 March 2008 at 13:10 involving a Piaggio NRG motorcycle
A car and a Piaggio NRG motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A268 in Rother at 13:10 on Thursday 6 March 2008. The 16-year-old male rider of the Piaggio NRG motorcycle was 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
- 6 Mar 2008
- Thursday, 13:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Piaggio NRG
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.95152, longitude 0.73203, in the TN31 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rye. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rye & Winchelsea, Rother, TN31 7JA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008470801895
- 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
- 268
- 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
- Zebra crossing
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 September 1985.
Slight
Van crash on the A259 in Rother, 23 September 1985
At the same spotRef 198547TA50467
Slight
Kia Sportage crash on the A268 in Rother, 5 December 2019
4 m awayRef 2019470906248
Slight
Toyota C-HR crash on the A268 in Rother, 20 July 2019
7 m awayRef 2019470868053
Slight
Toyota Urban Cruiser crash on the A268 in Rother, 8 October 2018
9 m awayRef 2018471805612
Slight
Van crash on the A268 in Rother, 13 July 2008
10 m awayRef 2008470806311
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A268 in Rother, 27 October 1993
10 m awayRef 199347TA30493
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
Vehicle 2: Piaggio NRG
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Piaggio NRG)
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 2008470801895 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.