A259 crash in Rother on 10 November 2015 at 07:41 involving a Peugeot Partner van
A Peugeot Partner van and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A259 in Rother at 07:41 on Tuesday 10 November 2015. The 34-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus and a 39-year-old female passenger in the Ford Focus were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Nov 2015
- Tuesday, 07:41
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot Partner and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84546, longitude 0.43581, in the TN39 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexhill-on-Sea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bexhill Kewhurst, Rother, TN39 3TW area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015471506630
- 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
- Urban
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine with 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 October 1993.
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A259 in Rother, 14 October 1993
2 m awayRef 199347TA30480
Serious
Car crash on the A259 in Rother, 9 March 1988
8 m awayRef 198847TA80108
Serious
Car crash on the A259 in Rother, 12 September 2012
11 m awayRef 2012471204750
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A259 in Rother, 29 November 2019
16 m awayRef 2019470903661
Serious
Car crash on the A259 in Rother, 18 February 1997
18 m awayRef 199747TA70080
Serious
Kawasaki ER650 crash on the A259 in Rother, 24 December 2024
21 m awayRef 2024471534957
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Partner
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 2015471506630 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.