A259 crash in Rother on 26 July 2018 at 15:40 involving a Volkswagen Polo
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jul 2018
- Thursday, 15:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and BMW X6
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.96379, longitude 0.75511, 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
- 2018471804125
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 November 2018.
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the A259 in Rother, 27 November 2018
10 m awayRef 2018471806549
Serious
Scania crash on the A259 in Rother, 16 May 2023
30 m awayRef 2023471307995
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A259 in Rother, 24 March 2001
54 m awayRef 200147T135004
Fatal
Honda crash on the A259 in Rother, 24 July 1998
64 m awayRef 199847T000753
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A259 in Rother, 23 March 1997
98 m awayRef 199747TA70123
Slight
Vauxhall Mokka crash on the A259 in Rother, 8 October 2020
98 m awayRef 2020470988509
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: BMW X6
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 66, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2018471804125 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 2018.