A229 crash in Rother on 18 October 2014 at 15:11 involving a BMW 5 Series
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Oct 2014
- Saturday, 15:11
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 5 Series and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.02683, longitude 0.47754, in the TN19 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014471406123
- 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
- 229
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- 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, 17 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 January 2014.
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A229 in Rother, 3 January 2014
17 m awayRef 2014471400047
Fatal
Vauxhall Omega crash on the A229 in Tunbridge Wells, 13 November 2005
76 m awayRef 2005460118298
Fatal
Honda Jazz crash on the A229 in Rother, 26 February 2020
82 m awayRef 2020470934330
Slight
Volvo 244 crash on a C road in Rother, 24 April 1996
85 m awayRef 199647TA60218
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the A229 in Rother, 6 February 2020
122 m awayRef 2020470927425
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A229 in Rother, 17 December 2008
124 m awayRef 2008470809832
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,926 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2014471406123 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.