A268 crash in Rother on 7 December 2014 at 19:18 involving a Peugeot 106
A Peugeot 106 and a car were involved in a crash on the A268 in Rother at 19:18 on Sunday 7 December 2014. The 17-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 106 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Dec 2014
- Sunday, 19:18
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 106 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.97815, longitude 0.67743, in the TN31 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014471407184
- 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
- 268
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 18 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 January 1983.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A268 in Rother, 1 January 1983
18 m awayRef 198347TA30014
Serious
Volkswagen LT 35 crash on the A2680 in Rother, 10 July 2000
52 m awayRef 200047T004591
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A268 in Rother, 10 October 2000
58 m awayRef 200047T127713
Serious
Honda Civic crash on the A268 in Rother, 6 June 1998
71 m awayRef 199847T000477
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A268 in Rother, 16 November 1999
79 m awayRef 199947T003465
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A268 in Rother, 18 August 2004
100 m awayRef 200447K178983
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 106
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 58 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 106)
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 2014471407184 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.