B2244 crash in Rother on 24 November 2016 at 17:00 involving a Toyota Auris
A Toyota Auris and a Vauxhall Zafira were involved in a crash on the B2244 in Rother at 17:00 on Thursday 24 November 2016. The 57-year-old male driver of the Toyota Auris was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Nov 2016
- Thursday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Auris and Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.01945, longitude 0.51103, in the TN32 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016471607078
- Council area
- Rother
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2244
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 March 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the A229 in Rother, 1 March 1986
10 m awayRef 198647TA60071
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B2244 in Rother, 1 March 2019
48 m awayRef 2019471901413
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A229 in Rother, 26 February 1990
90 m awayRef 199047TA00093
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the B2244 in Rother, 2 November 2023
102 m awayRef 2023471369903
Slight
Car crash on the A229 in Rother, 12 January 1987
104 m awayRef 198747TA70008
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the B2244 in Rother, 1 December 2021
137 m awayRef 2021471116331
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Auris
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
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Zafira
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
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Auris)
- 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 2016471607078 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.