A21 crash in Rother on 11 March 2016 at 14:09 involving a Peugeot 3008
A Peugeot 3008 and a Renault Megane were involved in a crash on the A21 in Rother at 14:09 on Friday 11 March 2016. The 68-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 3008 and the 37-year-old male driver of the Renault Megane were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Mar 2016
- Friday, 14:09
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 3008 and Renault Megane
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.0184, longitude 0.47022, in the TN19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hurst Green. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hurst Green & Ticehurst, Rother, TN19 7RA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016471601489
- 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
- 21
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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, 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, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 28 June 1988.
Serious
Car crash on the A21 in Rother, 28 June 1988
5 m awayRef 198847TA80312
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A21 in Rother, 16 May 2008
8 m awayRef 2008470803786
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A21 in Rother, 31 August 1986
8 m awayRef 198647TA60379
Serious
Peugeot Partner crash on the A21 in Rother, 10 March 2019
10 m awayRef 2019471901345
Serious
Vehicle crash on the A21 in Rother, 1 February 2022
34 m awayRef 2022471139035
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A21 in Rother, 12 June 1999
43 m awayRef 199947T002675
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 3008
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 68, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 3008)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Megane)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2016471601489 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.