Serious A2100 crash in Rother on 8 June 2017 at 07:29 involving an Audi TT
An Audi TT and a Mercedes lorry were involved in a crash on the A2100 in Rother at 07:29 on Thursday 8 June 2017. A 41-year-old male pedestrian hit by the Audi TT was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Jun 2017
- Thursday, 07:29
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi TT and Mercedes
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.91597, longitude 0.48541, in the TN33 postcode district and within the built-up area of Battle. It is one of the crashes that make up the North Battle, Netherfield & Whatlington, Rother, TN33 0AQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017471703185
- 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
- 2100
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 98%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 2%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 September 2006.
Slight
Leyland DAF FA 45 crash on the A2100 in Rother, 8 September 2006
4 m awayRef 2006470607485
Slight
Car crash on the A2100 in Rother, 18 December 1979
8 m awayRef 197947TA90608
Serious
Van crash on the A2100 in Rother, 1 December 1989
10 m awayRef 198947TA90664
Serious
Car crash on the A2100 in Rother, 16 December 1984
10 m awayRef 198447TA40626
Serious
Peugeot 307 crash on the A2100 in Rother, 9 November 2018
12 m awayRef 2018471806170
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A2100 in Rother, 7 November 2016
14 m awayRef 2016471606682
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi TT
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Mercedes
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 41, hit by vehicle 1 (Audi TT)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- 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 2017471703185 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.