Serious A21 crash in Rother on 4 September 2016 at 08:18 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A21 in Rother at 08:18 on Sunday 4 September 2016. The 21-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf was seriously injured and the 39-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Sep 2016
- Sunday, 08:18
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.02851, longitude 0.46715, in the TN19 postcode district. 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016471605322
- 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
- 50 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 97%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 3%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 July 2010.
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A21 in Rother, 27 July 2010
4 m awayRef 2010471004900
Serious
Triumph crash on the A21 in Rother, 18 March 2016
4 m awayRef 2016471601616
Fatal
Van crash on the A21 in Rother, 21 May 1980
6 m awayRef 198047TA00231
Serious
Kawasaki ER crash on the A21 in Rother, 18 April 2021
12 m awayRef 2021471036628
Slight
Car crash on the A21 in Rother, 26 December 2016
12 m awayRef 2016471607816
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A21 in Rother, 12 December 2009
17 m awayRef 2009470909370
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
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
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2016471605322 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.