Unclassified road crash in Rother TN32 on 21 October 2018 at 20:04 involving a Toyota Auris
A Toyota Auris, a van and a Citroen Saxo were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Rother at 20:04 on Sunday 21 October 2018. The 35-year-old male driver of the Toyota Auris was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry slip road with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Oct 2018
- Sunday, 20:04
- Vehicles
- 3
- Toyota Auris and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.98104, longitude 0.47412, in the TN32 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Robertsbridge, Rother, TN32 5BU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018471805816
- 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
- Slip road
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 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, 42 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 March 1999.
Slight
Talbot Horizon crash on the A21 in Rother, 3 March 1999
42 m awayRef 199947T002120
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A21 in Rother, 19 March 1990
51 m awayRef 199047TA00118
Slight
Colt Mitsubishi crash on the A21 in Rother, 22 March 1992
55 m awayRef 199247TA20118
Serious
Volvo V70 crash on the A21 in Rother, 7 October 2017
60 m awayRef 2017471705668
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A21 in Rother, 4 October 1991
62 m awayRef 199147TA10500
Serious
Mercedes E Class crash on the A21 in Rother, 3 February 2010
62 m awayRef 2010471000757
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Auris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 3: Citroen Saxo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Auris)
- 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 2018471805816 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.