A268 crash in Rother on 17 January 2015 at 10:10 involving an Audi A6 taxi
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jan 2015
- Saturday, 10:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Audi A6
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.99831, longitude 0.62882, 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
- 2015471500340
- 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
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
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 slight injury crash on 29 July 1991.
Slight
Kawasaki KH125 crash on the A268 in Rother, 29 July 1991
2 m awayRef 199147TA10383
Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on the A268 in Rother, 5 December 2006
11 m awayRef 2006470610569
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A268 in Rother, 10 December 1985
12 m awayRef 198547TA50635
Serious
Car crash on the A268 in Rother, 26 August 2024
23 m awayRef 2024471483942
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A268 in Rother, 23 December 2005
29 m awayRef 2005470511117
Slight
Car crash on the A268 in Rother, 16 August 1989
34 m awayRef 198947TA90435
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
Vehicle 2: Audi A6
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,698 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 58, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi A6)
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 2015471500340 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 2015.