Serious unclassified road crash in Rother TN32 on 4 August 2016 at 16:44 involving a Keeway RKV 125 motorcycle
A Keeway RKV 125 motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Rother at 16:44 on Thursday 4 August 2016. The 18-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Aug 2016
- Thursday, 16:44
- Vehicles
- 1
- Keeway RKV 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.96391, longitude 0.37807, in the TN32 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016471604674
- 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
- 60 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
- C
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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 January 1983.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Rother, 2 January 1983
7 m awayRef 198347TA30007
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Rother, 3 December 2009
7 m awayRef 2009470909068
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Rother, 23 February 1988
7 m awayRef 198847TA80089
Slight
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Serious
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Slight
Vauxhall Meriva crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 2 October 2018
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Keeway RKV 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Keeway RKV 125)
- 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 2016471604674 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.