Serious A21 crash in Rother on 30 November 2013 at 10:19 involving a Vauxhall Omega
A Vauxhall Omega and a Honda CBF125M motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A21 in Rother at 10:19 on Saturday 30 November 2013. The 30-year-old male rider of the Honda CBF125M motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Nov 2013
- Saturday, 10:19
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Omega and Honda CBF125M
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.97733, longitude 0.47411, in the TN32 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013471306490
- 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
- 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
- Wet or damp
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, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 June 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the A21 in Rother, 12 June 1987
20 m awayRef 198747TA70253
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A21 in Rother, 24 February 1995
32 m awayRef 199547TA50089
Slight
Car crash on the A21 in Rother, 25 May 1989
54 m awayRef 198947TA90259
Serious
Car crash on the A21 in Rother, 25 October 1984
54 m awayRef 198447TA40512
Serious
Car crash on the A21 in Rother, 24 July 1980
85 m awayRef 198047TA00363
Slight
Car crash on the A21 in Rother, 29 September 1985
110 m awayRef 198547TA50472
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Omega
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Honda CBF125M
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 30, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Honda CBF125M)
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 2013471306490 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.