A268 crash in Rother on 18 September 2020 at 10:05 involving a Peugeot Partner van
A car and a Peugeot Partner van were involved in a crash on the A268 in Rother at 10:05 on Friday 18 September 2020. The 54-year-old male driver of the Peugeot Partner van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Sep 2020
- Friday, 10:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Peugeot Partner
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.05292, longitude 0.4545, in the TN5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Flimwell. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hurst Green & Ticehurst, Rother, TN5 7QH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020470982202
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 November 2013.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A268 in Rother, 30 November 2013
8 m awayRef 2013471306504
Serious
Ford Galaxy crash on the A268 in Rother, 9 November 2023
54 m awayRef 2023471378933
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A268 in Rother, 2 December 1998
55 m awayRef 199847T001598
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A268 in Rother, 23 October 2001
64 m awayRef 200147T142934
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A268 in Rother, 25 April 1997
67 m awayRef 199747TA70194
Serious
Car crash on the A268 in Rother, 24 May 1991
67 m awayRef 199147TA10255
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- 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
- 19 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Peugeot Partner
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 54, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot Partner)
- 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 2020470982202 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 2020.