Unclassified road crash in Rother TN19 on 26 August 2016 at 09:40 involving a Yamaha XC 125 motorcycle
A Yamaha XC 125 motorcycle and a Mercedes Sprinter van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Rother at 09:40 on Friday 26 August 2016. The 44-year-old female rider of the Yamaha XC 125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Aug 2016
- Friday, 09:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha XC 125 and Mercedes Sprinter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.99115, longitude 0.44128, in the TN19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016471605140
- 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
- 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
- Wet or damp
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, 123 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 May 2014.
Serious
Fiat Punto crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 11 May 2014
123 m awayRef 2014471402557
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 3 September 2000
159 m awayRef 200047T126753
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Rother, 26 July 1985
170 m awayRef 198547TA50348
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on a C road in Rother, 3 October 2004
187 m awayRef 200447K179355
Serious
Volkswagen Passat crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 9 January 2008
366 m awayRef 2008470800183
Serious
Citroen C3 crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 18 January 2021
410 m awayRef 2021471014924
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha XC 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 44, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha XC 125)
- 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 2016471605140 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.