A259 crash in Rother on 18 February 2015 at 16:18 involving a Ford Transit van
A car, a minibus and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on the A259 in Rother at 16:18 on Wednesday 18 February 2015. The 75-year-old male driver of the car, the 51-year-old male driver of the minibus and a 69-year-old male passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Feb 2015
- Wednesday, 16:18
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Transit and 2 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84439, longitude 0.40345, in the TN39 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bexhill St Marks, Rother, TN39 4QR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015471501006
- 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
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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, 8 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 5 June 2003.
Serious
HGV crash on the A259 in Rother, 5 June 2003
8 m awayRef 200347K163501
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A259 in Rother, 2 January 2015
11 m awayRef 2015471500029
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A259 in Rother, 10 August 2014
11 m awayRef 2014471404585
Serious
Skoda Fabia crash on the A259 in Rother, 17 March 2018
17 m awayRef 2018471801506
Slight
Mazda MX-5 crash on the A259 in Rother, 21 December 2014
28 m awayRef 2014471407530
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A259 in Rother, 24 June 2015
29 m awayRef 2015471503556
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 75 years
Vehicle 2: Minibus
Minibus (8 to 16 seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 75, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, minibus occupant, in vehicle 2 (Minibus)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2015471501006 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.