B2088 crash in Rother on 27 July 2016 at 14:30 involving a Mitsubishi
A Mitsubishi, a Vauxhall Zafira and a ridden horse were involved in a crash on the B2088 in Rother at 14:30 on Wednesday 27 July 2016. The 58-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Zafira was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Jul 2016
- Wednesday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- Mitsubishi and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.98259, longitude 0.61581, in the TN31 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016471604546
- 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
- 2088
- 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, 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, 126 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 June 2005.
Serious
Rover Sterling crash on the B2088 in Rother, 24 June 2005
126 m awayRef 2005470504925
Slight
Car crash on the B2088 in Rother, 12 November 1982
172 m awayRef 198247TA20580
Slight
Zastava Yugo crash on the B2088 in Rother, 10 February 1992
281 m awayRef 199247TA20060
Slight
Renault 21 crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 27 May 2007
291 m awayRef 2007470704388
Serious
Citroen AX crash on the B2088 in Rother, 30 March 1997
292 m awayRef 199747TA70139
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B2088 in Rother, 9 December 2012
322 m awayRef 2012471206573
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Mitsubishi
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 21 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 3: Ridden horse
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least 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 2016471604546 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.