Serious unclassified road crash in Rother TN5 on 10 September 2016 at 20:15 involving a Honda GLR 125 motorcycle
A Honda GLR 125 motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Rother at 20:15 on Saturday 10 September 2016. The 23-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Sep 2016
- Saturday, 20:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda GLR 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.03176, longitude 0.37589, in the TN5 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016471605494
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 99%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 1%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 July 1985.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Rother, 2 July 1985
10 m awayRef 198547TA50291
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Rother, 15 June 2002
12 m awayRef 200247K150953
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Rother, 25 May 1987
79 m awayRef 198747TA70215
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 20 July 2017
85 m awayRef 2017471704347
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Rother, 18 September 1981
107 m awayRef 198147TA10448
Slight
Bedford crash on a C road in Rother, 3 September 1991
135 m awayRef 199147TA10460
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda GLR 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 23, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda GLR 125)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2016471605494 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.