A259 crash in Rother on 24 June 2015 at 18:24 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Peugeot 1007 were involved in a crash on the A259 in Rother at 18:24 on Wednesday 24 June 2015. The 22-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta and the 39-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 1007 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
- 24 Jun 2015
- Wednesday, 18:24
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Peugeot 1007
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84433, longitude 0.40305, 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
- 2015471503556
- 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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 May 2017.
Slight
Citroen C2 crash on the A259 in Rother, 18 May 2017
6 m awayRef 2017471702733
Serious
Skoda Fabia crash on the A259 in Rother, 17 March 2018
12 m awayRef 2018471801506
Serious
HGV crash on the A259 in Rother, 5 June 2003
24 m awayRef 200347K163501
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A259 in Rother, 18 February 2015
29 m awayRef 2015471501006
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A259 in Rother, 2 January 2015
39 m awayRef 2015471500029
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A259 in Rother, 10 August 2014
40 m awayRef 2014471404585
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 1007
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 1007)
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 2015471503556 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.