A269 crash in Rother on 31 December 2015 at 15:00 involving a Ford Focus
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2015
- Thursday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.8429, longitude 0.46959, 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 Central, Rother, TN40 1QX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015471507738
- 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
- 269
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 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 21 March 2025.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A269 in Rother, 21 March 2025
6 m awayRef 2025471567721
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A269 in Rother, 19 May 2000
25 m awayRef 200047T004323
Serious
Car crash on the A269 in Rother, 10 July 2002
25 m awayRef 200247K152046
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A259 in Rother, 29 July 1985
35 m awayRef 198547TA50349
Slight
Leyland crash on the A269 in Rother, 22 July 1994
45 m awayRef 199447TA40388
Serious
Car crash on the A269 in Rother, 27 August 1985
45 m awayRef 198547TA50421
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 76, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2015471507738 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.