Unclassified road crash in Rother TN33 on 3 April 2012 at 18:11 involving a BMW 3 Series
A bus or coach and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Rother at 18:11 on Tuesday 3 April 2012. The 31-year-old male driver of the BMW 3 Series 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
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Apr 2012
- Tuesday, 18:11
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bus or coach and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.87949, longitude 0.49025, in the TN33 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012471201724
- Council area
- Rother
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 114 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 January 2007.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on a C road in Rother, 25 January 2007
114 m awayRef 2007470700727
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Rother, 18 June 1983
122 m awayRef 198347TA30268
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on a C road in Rother, 13 August 2008
133 m awayRef 2008470806239
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Rother, 25 April 2007
151 m awayRef 2007470703476
Slight
Volkswagen crash on a C road in Rother, 16 January 1993
225 m awayRef 199347TA30013
Slight
Tomos crash on a C road in Rother, 8 December 1990
266 m awayRef 199047TA00672
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- Yes
- Driver age
- 40 years
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 3 Series)
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 2012471201724 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.