Serious A259 crash in Rother on 2 February 2015 at 12:06 involving a motorcycle
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Feb 2015
- Monday, 12:06
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.92556, longitude 0.71431, in the TN36 postcode district and within the built-up area of Winchelsea Beach. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rye & Winchelsea, Rother, TN36 4EB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015471500714
- 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
- 259
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 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
- 98%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 2%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 July 2010.
Slight
Volvo crash on the A259 in Rother, 14 July 2010
6 m awayRef 2010471004627
Slight
Scania crash on the A259 in Rother, 24 May 2014
7 m awayRef 2014471402869
Slight
Honda NSR125 crash on the A259 in Rother, 27 August 2005
11 m awayRef 2005470507000
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A259 in Rother, 16 December 1992
11 m awayRef 199247TA20592
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A259 in Rother, 27 June 1982
12 m awayRef 198247TA20282
Serious
Mercedes AMG Class crash on the A259 in Rother, 14 August 2022
14 m awayRef 2022471209033
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 20, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 2015471500714 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.