Unclassified road crash in Rother TN35 on 4 November 2015 at 17:51 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on an unclassified road in Rother at 17:51 on Wednesday 4 November 2015. The 19-year-old male driver and a 17-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Nov 2015
- Wednesday, 17:51
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.89777, longitude 0.70228, in the TN35 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015471506496
- Council area
- Rother
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 21 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 March 2020.
Serious
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 24 March 2020
21 m awayRef 2020470942486
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Rother, 2 July 1996
57 m awayRef 199647TA60370
Serious
Toyota Yaris crash on a C road in Rother, 5 December 2007
65 m awayRef 2007470710235
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Rother, 13 June 1983
93 m awayRef 198347TA30254
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Rother, 14 January 1994
112 m awayRef 199447TA40016
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 14 May 2019
185 m awayRef 2019471902483
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- 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 2015471506496 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.