Unclassified road crash in Rother TN18 on 14 December 2011 at 07:00 involving a Kawasaki motorcycle
Two cars and a Kawasaki motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Rother at 07:00 on Wednesday 14 December 2011. The 35-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet road with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 2011
- Wednesday, 07:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Kawasaki and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.0509, longitude 0.46604, in the TN18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011471107939
- Council area
- Rother
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 268
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
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, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 August 2014.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A268 in Rother, 1 August 2014
19 m awayRef 2014471404397
Serious
Jeep Cherokee crash on the A268 in Rother, 27 September 2015
138 m awayRef 2015471505624
Slight
Car crash on the A268 in Tunbridge Wells, 15 June 1992
209 m awayRef 1992461107395
Slight
Car crash on the A268 in Tunbridge Wells, 19 July 1981
265 m awayRef 1981464104461
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A268 in Rother, 30 June 1979
275 m awayRef 197947TA90280
Serious
Car crash on the A268 in Rother, 25 November 1987
293 m awayRef 198747TA70601
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
Vehicle 2: Kawasaki
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 553 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 20 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 35, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Kawasaki)
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 2011471107939 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 2011.