Serious A259 crash in Rother on 30 June 2017 at 05:55 involving a Peugeot Partner van
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Jun 2017
- Friday, 05:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot Partner
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.92062, longitude 0.6938, in the TN36 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017471703609
- 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
- 259
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 August 2006.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A259 in Rother, 31 August 2006
22 m awayRef 2006470607206
Fatal
Suzuki GSXR 1000 crash on the A259 in Rother, 27 September 2015
26 m awayRef 2015471505617
Slight
Mazda MX-5 crash on the A259 in Rother, 6 September 2023
31 m awayRef 2023471349777
Slight
Van crash on the A259 in Rother, 15 January 1987
39 m awayRef 198747TA70018
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A259 in Rother, 23 November 2012
40 m awayRef 2012471206226
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A259 in Rother, 20 April 1992
59 m awayRef 199247TA20166
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Partner
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 27, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot Partner)
- 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 2017471703609 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.