A21 crash in Rother on 24 March 2015 at 19:52 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A21 in Rother at 19:52 on Tuesday 24 March 2015. The 24-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra and the 28-year-old male rider of the motorcycle were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Mar 2015
- Tuesday, 19:52
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.97514, longitude 0.47503, in the TN32 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015471501644
- 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
- 21
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 April 2003.
Slight
BMW R 1100 GS crash on the A21 in Rother, 7 April 2003
10 m awayRef 200347K161615
Serious
Triumph crash on the A21 in Rother, 29 June 1997
10 m awayRef 199747TA70304
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A21 in Hastings, 9 November 2003
10 m awayRef 200347K168705
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A21 in Rother, 27 January 2007
10 m awayRef 2007470700838
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the A21 in Rother, 9 April 1997
12 m awayRef 199747TA70162
Slight
Bedford crash on the A21 in Rother, 30 April 1994
20 m awayRef 199447TA40219
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
Casualty 2: Rider
SlightMale, aged 28, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (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 2015471501644 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.