Serious B2087 crash in Rother on 9 February 2016 at 13:53 involving a Volvo S80
A Volvo S80 and a Peugeot 206 were involved in a crash on the B2087 in Rother at 13:53 on Tuesday 9 February 2016. A 53-year-old female pedestrian hit by the Peugeot 206 was seriously injured and the 38-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 206 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Feb 2016
- Tuesday, 13:53
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volvo S80 and Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.05074, longitude 0.42394, in the TN5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016471600804
- Council area
- Rother
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2087
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 98%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 2%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 April 1999.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B2087 in Rother, 3 April 1999
11 m awayRef 199947T002282
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the B2087 in Rother, 15 April 1992
11 m awayRef 199247TA20160
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the B2087 in Rother, 11 January 1990
15 m awayRef 199047TA00016
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B2087 in Rother, 27 July 1989
27 m awayRef 198947TA90406
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the B2087 in Rother, 19 September 1997
27 m awayRef 199747TA70491
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B2087 in Rother, 13 April 1979
46 m awayRef 197947TA90151
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volvo S80
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,401 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 53, hit by vehicle 2 (Peugeot 206)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 206)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
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 2016471600804 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 2016.