A28 crash in Rother on 28 May 2014 at 18:32 involving a Hyundai i10
A Hyundai i10 and a Volkswagen Beetle were involved in a crash on the A28 in Rother at 18:32 on Wednesday 28 May 2014. The 26-year-old female driver of the Hyundai i10 and the 56-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Beetle were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 May 2014
- Wednesday, 18:32
- Vehicles
- 2
- Hyundai i10 and Volkswagen Beetle
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.91017, longitude 0.57571, in the TN35 postcode district and within the built-up area of Westfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sedlescombe & Westfield, Rother, TN35 4QZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014471402956
- 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
- 28
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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 25 November 2019.
Serious
Subaru Outback crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 25 November 2019
2 m awayRef 2019470902241
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on the A28 in Rother, 27 September 2020
3 m awayRef 2020470984746
Serious
Bedford crash on the A28 in Rother, 11 August 1990
4 m awayRef 199047TA00449
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A28 in Rother, 10 July 1994
4 m awayRef 199447TA40365
Slight
Alfa Romeo Mito crash on the A28 in Rother, 12 September 2021
7 m awayRef 2021471086708
Serious
Iveco Daily crash on the A28 in Rother, 4 March 2011
7 m awayRef 2011471101405
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai i10
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Beetle
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Hyundai i10)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Beetle)
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 2014471402956 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.