A21 crash in Rother on 18 March 2014 at 17:09 involving a Toyota Celica
A Toyota Celica and a Seat Altea were involved in a crash on the A21 in Rother at 17:09 on Tuesday 18 March 2014. The 53-year-old female driver of the Seat Altea was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Mar 2014
- Tuesday, 17:09
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Celica and Seat Altea
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.92478, longitude 0.53298, in the TN33 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sedlescombe & Westfield, Rother, TN33 0RG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014471401489
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 2244
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, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 27 September 2015.
Serious
Volkswagen Touran crash on the A21 in Rother, 27 September 2015
2 m awayRef 2015471505623
Slight
Car crash on the A21 in Rother, 16 November 1988
4 m awayRef 198847TA80595
Serious
Van crash on the A21 in Rother, 20 June 1980
4 m awayRef 198047TA00284
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A21 in Rother, 9 October 2003
4 m awayRef 200347K167738
Slight
Gilera Runner 125 crash on the A21 in Rother, 3 October 2012
4 m awayRef 2012471205175
Fatal
Nissan Micra crash on the A21 in Rother, 10 December 2006
4 m awayRef 2006470610763
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Celica
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,794 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Seat Altea
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Seat Altea)
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 2014471401489 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 2014.