Serious A2036 crash in Rother on 16 January 2017 at 13:33 involving a Nissan Qashqai
A Nissan Qashqai and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A2036 in Rother at 13:33 on Monday 16 January 2017. The 22-year-old female driver of the Nissan Qashqai was seriously injured and the 33-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Jan 2017
- Monday, 13:33
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Qashqai and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.85367, longitude 0.47709, in the TN40 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexhill-on-Sea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bexhill Sidley, Rother, TN39 4FL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017471700321
- 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
- 2036
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- 97%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 3%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a serious injury crash on 26 November 1985.
Serious
Car crash on the A2036 in Rother, 26 November 1985
1 m awayRef 198547TA50598
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A2036 in Rother, 1 November 1993
1 m awayRef 199347TA30499
Serious
Peugeot 406 crash on the A2036 in Rother, 23 December 2003
1 m awayRef 200347K170412
Slight
Car crash on the A2036 in Rother, 20 March 1981
1 m awayRef 198147TA10114
Slight
Car crash on the A2036 in Rother, 16 June 1989
1 m awayRef 198947TA90305
Slight
Mercedes ML Class crash on the A2036 in Rother, 30 May 2013
1 m awayRef 2013471302714
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Qashqai
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Qashqai)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2017471700321 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 2017.