Serious unclassified road crash in Rother TN39 on 19 July 2019 at 02:25 involving a car
A vehicle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Rother at 02:25 on Friday 19 July 2019. The 55-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Jul 2019
- Friday, 02:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Other vehicle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84968, longitude 0.44791, in the TN39 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexhill-on-Sea.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019470859262
- 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
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 93 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 December 1998.
Slight
Honda crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 28 December 1998
93 m awayRef 199847T001737
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 17 December 2005
179 m awayRef 2005470510870
Slight
Renault 5 crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 25 January 2001
182 m awayRef 200147T132617
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 12 April 1982
242 m awayRef 198247TA20146
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A259 in Rother, 5 October 1991
290 m awayRef 199147TA10503
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 4 September 1997
325 m awayRef 199747TA70471
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- Yes
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 55, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2019470859262 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 2019.