A268 crash in Rother on 17 August 2012 at 09:59 involving a Volkswagen Sharan
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Aug 2012
- Friday, 09:59
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Sharan and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.95504, longitude 0.73566, in the TN31 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rye. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rye & Winchelsea, Rother, TN31 7JA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012471204256
- 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
- 268
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 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 August 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A268 in Rother, 18 August 1988
At the same spotRef 198847TA80406
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A268 in Rother, 26 June 1989
At the same spotRef 198947TA90335
Slight
Car crash on the A268 in Rother, 4 July 1984
At the same spotRef 198447TA40275
Slight
Car crash on the A268 in Rother, 10 August 1987
At the same spotRef 198747TA70364
Slight
Vauxhall Adam crash on the A268 in Rother, 16 September 2019
4 m awayRef 2019470878004
Serious
Peugeot 206 crash on the A268 in Rother, 19 May 2019
5 m awayRef 2019471902569
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Sharan
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 55 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 55, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 2012471204256 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.