Unclassified road crash in Rother TN31 on 31 October 2018 at 16:15 involving a Jaguar XJ Series
A Jaguar XJ Series and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Rother at 16:15 on Wednesday 31 October 2018. The 73-year-old male driver of the Jaguar XJ Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Oct 2018
- Wednesday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Jaguar XJ Series and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.94425, longitude 0.74413, in the TN31 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rye.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018471806353
- 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
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 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, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 2012.
Slight
Peugeot Bipper crash on a C road in Rother, 17 December 2012
12 m awayRef 2012471206738
Slight
Ford Transit crash on a C road in Rother, 24 January 2013
32 m awayRef 2013471300428
Slight
Lorry crash on a C road in Rother, 6 September 1988
52 m awayRef 198847TA80443
Slight
Hyundai i10 crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 3 October 2025
77 m awayRef 2025471650172
Slight
Citroen Synergie crash on a C road in Rother, 6 February 2013
83 m awayRef 2013471300680
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Rother, 17 August 1989
91 m awayRef 198947TA90442
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Jaguar XJ Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 73 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 73, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Jaguar XJ Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2018471806353 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.