A259 crash in Rother on 4 September 2013 at 07:30 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A Yamaha motorcycle and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on the A259 in Rother at 07:30 on Wednesday 4 September 2013. The 25-year-old male rider of the Yamaha motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Sep 2013
- Wednesday, 07:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84557, longitude 0.46699, in the TN39 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexhill-on-Sea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bexhill Collington, Rother, TN39 3QE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013471304642
- 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
- 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, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 July 2001.
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A259 in Rother, 22 July 2001
4 m awayRef 200147T139301
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the A259 in Rother, 7 September 2016
9 m awayRef 2016471605396
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A259 in Rother, 4 September 2018
10 m awayRef 2018471804903
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the A259 in Rother, 21 February 1993
11 m awayRef 199347TA30077
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A259 in Rother, 13 February 2011
11 m awayRef 2011471100976
Slight
Ford B-Max crash on the A259 in Rother, 14 December 2018
11 m awayRef 2018471806955
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 31 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 25, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha)
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 2013471304642 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 2013.