A259 crash in Rother on 21 July 2017 at 09:05 involving a Ford Focus
Four vehicles, including a Ford Focus and a Ford Fiesta, were involved in a crash on the A259 in Rother at 09:05 on Friday 21 July 2017. The 48-year-old male driver of the Citroen Berlingo and the 26-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jul 2017
- Friday, 09:05
- Vehicles
- 4
- Ford Focus and 3 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84529, longitude 0.40949, in the TN39 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexhill-on-Sea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bexhill St Marks, Rother, TN39 4QR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017471704087
- 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
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 November 2016.
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the A259 in Rother, 2 November 2016
4 m awayRef 2016471606589
Serious
Car crash on the A259 in Rother, 3 July 1986
4 m awayRef 198647TA60243
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A259 in Rother, 11 May 2009
4 m awayRef 2009470903337
Slight
Nissan Note crash on the A259 in Rother, 23 April 2019
5 m awayRef 2019471902098
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A259 in Rother, 28 May 2014
6 m awayRef 2014471402978
Serious
Car crash on the A259 in Rother, 16 April 1981
6 m awayRef 198147TA10163
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Citroen Berlingo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 4: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Citroen Berlingo)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 2017471704087 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.