Serious A2100 crash in Rother on 30 November 2017 at 07:20 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Yamaha motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A2100 in Rother at 07:20 on Thursday 30 November 2017. The 49-year-old male rider of the Yamaha motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Nov 2017
- Thursday, 07:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Yamaha
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.91004, longitude 0.49956, in the TN33 postcode district and within the built-up area of Telham.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017471706806
- 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
- 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 3 November 2018.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A2100 in Rother, 3 November 2018
8 m awayRef 2018471806062
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A2100 in Rother, 13 November 2007
10 m awayRef 2007470709513
Serious
Honda Accord crash on the A2100 in Rother, 14 November 1991
20 m awayRef 199147TA10565
Slight
Car crash on the A2100 in Rother, 27 December 1984
30 m awayRef 198447TA40644
Slight
Van crash on the A2100 in Rother, 30 December 1981
61 m awayRef 198147TA10636
Serious
Mazda 323 crash on the A2100 in Rother, 22 November 2006
68 m awayRef 2006470610065
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Yamaha
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 700 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 30 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 49, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least 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 2017471706806 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.