A28 crash in Rother on 4 May 2017 at 17:40 involving a Toyota Yaris
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 May 2017
- Thursday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Yaris and Suzuki Jimny
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.94882, longitude 0.598, in the TN31 postcode district and within the built-up area of Broad Oak.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017471702459
- 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
- 28
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 2089
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, 1 metre away, was a serious injury crash on 15 August 2016.
Serious
Peugeot 206 crash on the A28 in Rother, 15 August 2016
1 m awayRef 2016471604892
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A28 in Rother, 6 February 2015
2 m awayRef 2015471500796
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A28 in Rother, 26 September 2020
2 m awayRef 2020470984587
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B2098 in Rother, 26 October 1990
3 m awayRef 199047TA00594
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on the A28 in Rother, 24 May 1990
3 m awayRef 199047TA00275
Serious
Car crash on the A28 in Rother, 13 May 1983
3 m awayRef 198347TA30198
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,329 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Suzuki Jimny
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,298 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 66, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Yaris)
- 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 2017471702459 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.