Serious C road crash in Rother TN19 on 20 December 2011 at 15:09 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on a C road in Rother at 15:09 on Tuesday 20 December 2011. The 72-year-old female driver was seriously injured and a 77-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Dec 2011
- Tuesday, 15:09
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.01653, longitude 0.35314, in the TN19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011471108126
- Council area
- Rother
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 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
- 98%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 2%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 September 2022.
Slight
Peugeot 107 crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 23 September 2022
2 m awayRef 2022471222506
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Rother, 12 August 2007
41 m awayRef 2007470706725
Slight
Renault Clio crash on a C road in Rother, 27 March 2009
51 m awayRef 2009470902738
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Rother, 25 May 1985
76 m awayRef 198547TA50202
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on a C road in Rother, 11 October 1993
102 m awayRef 199347TA30473
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Rother, 28 October 1987
114 m awayRef 198747TA70514
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 72 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 72, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 77, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2011471108126 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.