Unclassified road crash in Rother TN39 on 14 July 2016 at 12:15 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Rother at 12:15 on Thursday 14 July 2016. The 45-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta and the 24-year-old male driver of the Ford KA were 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
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Jul 2016
- Thursday, 12:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford KA and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.85673, longitude 0.4744, 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 Sidley, Rother, TN39 4FL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016471604203
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 March 1986.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 29 March 1986
10 m awayRef 198647TA60108
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 8 December 1998
27 m awayRef 199847T001618
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 5 September 1980
32 m awayRef 198047TA00441
Serious
Minibus crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 7 June 1985
32 m awayRef 198547TA50219
Slight
Car crash on the A269 in Rother, 30 April 1985
46 m awayRef 198547TA50162
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 23 June 1985
57 m awayRef 198547TA50260
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- West
- 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
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- 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
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2016471604203 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.