Serious unclassified road crash in Rother TN31 on 21 November 2015 at 14:10 involving a Yamaha Ybr 125 motorcycle
A Yamaha Ybr 125 motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Rother at 14:10 on Saturday 21 November 2015. The 21-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Nov 2015
- Saturday, 14:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha Ybr 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.95659, longitude 0.7579, in the TN31 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015471506919
- 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
- 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
- 99%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 1%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 January 1986.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Rother, 19 January 1986
4 m awayRef 198647TA60018
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Rother, 25 August 1986
4 m awayRef 198647TA60367
Fatal
Kawasaki ZX750 crash on a C road in Rother, 28 August 1995
9 m awayRef 199547TA50398
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Rother, 9 July 1987
23 m awayRef 198747TA70302
Serious
Volkswagen Passat crash on a C road in Rother, 1 August 2013
28 m awayRef 2013471303994
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Rother, 21 April 1984
45 m awayRef 198447TA40150
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha Ybr 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 21, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha Ybr 125)
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 2015471506919 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.