A265 crash in Rother on 17 March 2017 at 06:45 involving a Vauxhall Insignia
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Mar 2017
- Friday, 06:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Insignia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.00401, longitude 0.4075, in the TN19 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017471701499
- 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
- 265
- 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
- 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, 37 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 June 1989.
Serious
Car crash on the A265 in Rother, 9 June 1989
37 m awayRef 198947TA90298
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A265 in Rother, 25 February 1991
37 m awayRef 199147TA10073
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A265 in Rother, 9 April 2023
59 m awayRef 2023471295174
Slight
Kia Sorento crash on the A265 in Rother, 30 September 2024
73 m awayRef 2024471497798
Slight
Volvo crash on the A265 in Rother, 21 May 2013
84 m awayRef 2013471302548
Fatal
Nissan Bluebird crash on the A265 in Rother, 17 August 2002
99 m awayRef 200247K153326
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Insignia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Any animal (except ridden horse)
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Insignia)
- 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 2017471701499 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.