B2089 crash in Rother on 15 December 2017 at 12:24 involving an Audi A1
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Dec 2017
- Friday, 12:24
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A1 and Mercedes
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.93885, longitude 0.67713, in the TN31 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017471707178
- Council area
- Rother
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2089
- 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
- 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, 27 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 September 1990.
Slight
Yamaha crash on the B2089 in Rother, 19 September 1990
27 m awayRef 199047TA00521
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the B2089 in Rother, 5 January 2010
54 m awayRef 2010471000091
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the B2089 in Rother, 8 July 2020
58 m awayRef 2020470962953
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the B2089 in Rother, 4 October 2025
59 m awayRef 2025471650066
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the B2088 in Rother, 29 December 2000
96 m awayRef 200047T131376
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the B2089 in Rother, 26 November 2003
118 m awayRef 200347K169451
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Mercedes
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 7,698 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A1)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2017471707178 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.