Serious unclassified road crash in Rother TN39 on 28 September 2017 at 15:10 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Rother at 15:10 on Thursday 28 September 2017. The 22-year-old female rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Sep 2017
- Thursday, 15:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84807, longitude 0.41245, in the TN39 postcode district. 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017471705506
- Council area
- Rother
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Wet or damp
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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 April 2017.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 7 April 2017
8 m awayRef 2017471701944
Slight
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61 m awayRef 2024471469969
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 8 January 2009
143 m awayRef 2009470900255
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 18 February 1981
203 m awayRef 198147TA10080
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 3 April 2006
224 m awayRef 2006470602797
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 19 July 2015
260 m awayRef 2015471504156
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousFemale, aged 22, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2017471705506 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.