Unclassified road crash in Rother TN39 on 18 December 2019 at 13:55 involving a Citroen C1
A Citroen C1 crashed on an unclassified road in Rother at 13:55 on Wednesday 18 December 2019. The 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2019
- Wednesday, 13:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen C1
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.8578, longitude 0.44169, in the TN39 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bexhill Sidley, Rother, TN39 5JE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019470911179
- 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
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 June 2009.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Rother, 26 June 2009
5 m awayRef 2009470904559
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Rother, 11 June 1997
5 m awayRef 199747TA70274
Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on a C road in Rother, 25 March 2014
25 m awayRef 2014471401638
Slight
Nissan Juke crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 7 January 2025
32 m awayRef 2025471538744
Slight
Austin Mini crash on a C road in Rother, 9 October 1996
35 m awayRef 199647TA60553
Serious
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 5 November 2002
47 m awayRef 200247K156498
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C1)
- 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 2019470911179 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.