A268 crash in Rother on 16 September 2019 at 12:15 involving a Vauxhall Adam
A Vauxhall Adam and a bus or coach were involved in a crash on the A268 in Rother at 12:15 on Monday 16 September 2019. The 56-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Adam was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Sep 2019
- Monday, 12:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Adam and bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.95513, longitude 0.73569, in the TN31 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rye. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rye & Winchelsea, Rother, TN31 7JA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019470878004
- 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
- 268
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 May 2019.
Serious
Peugeot 206 crash on the A268 in Rother, 19 May 2019
2 m awayRef 2019471902569
Slight
Car crash on the A268 in Rother, 10 August 1987
4 m awayRef 198747TA70364
Slight
Car crash on the A268 in Rother, 4 July 1984
4 m awayRef 198447TA40275
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A268 in Rother, 26 June 1989
4 m awayRef 198947TA90335
Slight
Volkswagen Sharan crash on the A268 in Rother, 17 August 2012
4 m awayRef 2012471204256
Slight
Car crash on the A268 in Rother, 18 August 1988
4 m awayRef 198847TA80406
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Adam
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- Yes
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- Yes
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Adam)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2019470878004 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.