A21 crash in Rother on 28 March 2017 at 17:45 involving a Ford Transit Connect van
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Mar 2017
- Tuesday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit Connect and Toyota Yaris
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.99073, longitude 0.47922, in the TN32 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Robertsbridge, Rother, TN32 5BU area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017471701753
- 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
- 21
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 December 2002.
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A21 in Rother, 19 December 2002
10 m awayRef 200247K158171
Serious
Peugeot Partner crash on the A21 in Rother, 18 July 2021
12 m awayRef 2021471067382
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A21 in Rother, 17 April 1997
16 m awayRef 199747TA70188
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A21 in Rother, 14 April 1990
16 m awayRef 199047TA00177
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A21 in Rother, 28 June 2020
34 m awayRef 2020470960342
Slight
Vespa (Douglas) crash on the A21 in Rother, 5 July 2002
37 m awayRef 200247K152346
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit Connect
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Yaris)
- 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 2017471701753 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.