B2244 crash in Rother on 5 November 2019 at 22:03 involving a BMW 5 Series
A BMW 5 Series crashed on the B2244 in Rother at 22:03 on Tuesday 5 November 2019. The 25-year-old male driver and a 22-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Nov 2019
- Tuesday, 22:03
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 5 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.02303, longitude 0.50901, in the TN18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019470895582
- Council area
- Rother
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2244
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
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, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 November 1991.
Slight
Vauxhall Chevette crash on the B2244 in Rother, 14 November 1991
15 m awayRef 199147TA10562
Slight
Volvo crash on the B2244 in Rother, 23 March 1993
17 m awayRef 199347TA30127
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B2244 in Rother, 14 May 2021
38 m awayRef 2021471045437
Serious
Car crash on the A229 in Rother, 18 July 1979
44 m awayRef 197947TA90326
Serious
Citroen C3 crash on the B2244 in Rother, 13 July 2025
49 m awayRef 2025471615411
Fatal
Car crash on the B2244 in Rother, 10 January 2008
51 m awayRef 2008470800226
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 5 Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 5 Series)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2019470895582 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.