A259 crash in Rother on 11 October 2016 at 09:37 involving a Toyota Aygo
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Oct 2016
- Tuesday, 09:37
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Aygo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84549, longitude 0.44052, in the TN39 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexhill-on-Sea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bexhill Kewhurst, Rother, TN39 3TW area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016471606100
- 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
- 259
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 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, 18 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 November 1997.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A259 in Rother, 29 November 1997
18 m awayRef 199747TA70627
Slight
Nissan Juke crash on the A259 in Rother, 15 April 2018
27 m awayRef 2018471802016
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A259 in Rother, 19 December 1995
37 m awayRef 199547TA50621
Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on the A259 in Rother, 14 May 2006
39 m awayRef 2006470603994
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A259 in Rother, 15 July 1981
51 m awayRef 198147TA10311
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A259 in Rother, 20 January 2002
58 m awayRef 200247T146480
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Aygo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Aygo)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2016471606100 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.