Unclassified road crash in Rother TN40 on 20 December 2017 at 19:48 involving a Peugeot 307
A Peugeot 307 and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Rother at 19:48 on Wednesday 20 December 2017. The 49-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2017
- Wednesday, 19:48
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 307 and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84014, longitude 0.47159, in the TN40 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexhill-on-Sea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bexhill Central, Rother, TN40 1QX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017471707245
- Council area
- Rother
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 December 2017.
Slight
Volvo V60 crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 5 December 2017
3 m awayRef 2017471706947
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 11 October 1979
8 m awayRef 197947TA90499
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 2 January 2007
14 m awayRef 2007470700029
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 8 November 1984
34 m awayRef 198447TA40562
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 12 October 1990
34 m awayRef 199047TA00589
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 29 September 1995
37 m awayRef 199547TA50463
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 307
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- 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 2017471707245 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.