A21 crash in Rother on 2 February 2012 at 07:30 involving a Rover 100 Series
A Rover 100 Series and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A21 in Rother at 07:30 on Thursday 2 February 2012. The 55-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Feb 2012
- Thursday, 07:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 100 Series and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.03266, longitude 0.46065, in the TN19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012471200625
- 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
- 21
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 2099
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 February 2010.
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on the A21 in Rother, 18 February 2010
At the same spotRef 2010471001124
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A21 in Rother, 22 April 2007
At the same spotRef 2007470703412
Slight
Volkswagen Tiguan crash on the A21 in Rother, 28 February 2019
8 m awayRef 2019471901180
Serious
Ford KA crash on the A21 in Rother, 7 August 2014
10 m awayRef 2014471404554
Slight
Leyland crash on the A21 in Rother, 3 May 1993
10 m awayRef 199347TA30185
Slight
Lorry crash on the A21 in Rother, 11 January 1985
10 m awayRef 198547TA50012
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 100 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,120 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 55, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 2012471200625 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 2012.