A269 crash in Rother on 17 September 2014 at 11:46 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra and a Ford S-Max were involved in a crash on the A269 in Rother at 11:46 on Wednesday 17 September 2014. The 53-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Vectra and the 43-year-old female driver of the Ford S-Max were 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
- 17 Sep 2014
- Wednesday, 11:46
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Vectra and Ford S-Max
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84393, longitude 0.48413, in the TN40 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexhill-on-Sea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bexhill Central, Rother, TN40 1QX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014471405355
- 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
- 269
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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 14 December 1981.
Serious
Car crash on the A269 in Rother, 14 December 1981
4 m awayRef 198147TA10606
Slight
Car crash on the A269 in Rother, 21 September 1988
4 m awayRef 198847TA80472
Serious
Piaggio Vespa crash on the A269 in Rother, 8 November 2014
4 m awayRef 2014471406589
Slight
Car crash on the A269 in Rother, 27 July 1981
4 m awayRef 198147TA10341
Slight
MG Metro crash on the A269 in Rother, 27 July 1992
4 m awayRef 199247TA20359
Slight
Jaguar X Type crash on the A269 in Rother, 28 September 2015
5 m awayRef 2015471505648
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- 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
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Ford S-Max
Car
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,179 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford S-Max)
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 2014471405355 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.