Serious A259 crash in Rother on 13 April 2012 at 17:12 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto and a Triumph Thunderbird motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A259 in Rother at 17:12 on Friday 13 April 2012. The 39-year-old male rider of the Triumph Thunderbird motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Apr 2012
- Friday, 17:12
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Punto and Triumph Thunderbird
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84539, longitude 0.49951, in the TN40 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexhill-on-Sea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bexhill Pebsham & St Michaels, Rother, TN40 2NY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012471201908
- 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
- 259
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 July 2015.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A259 in Rother, 7 July 2015
7 m awayRef 2015471503872
Slight
Yamaha MT crash on the A259 in Rother, 6 July 2024
9 m awayRef 2024471464358
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A259 in Rother, 21 February 2003
10 m awayRef 200347K160234
Slight
Volvo 240 crash on the A259 in Rother, 27 September 1995
10 m awayRef 199547TA50462
Slight
Datsun Sunny crash on the A259 in Rother, 20 July 1991
14 m awayRef 199147TA10358
Slight
Volvo 244 crash on the A259 in Rother, 30 April 1995
14 m awayRef 199547TA50209
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Triumph Thunderbird
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,700 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 39, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Triumph Thunderbird)
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 2012471201908 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.