A21 crash in Rother on 14 June 2021 at 09:37 involving a Seat Leon
A Seat Leon and a Ford Galaxy were involved in a crash on the A21 in Rother at 09:37 on Monday 14 June 2021. A 26-year-old female passenger in the Seat Leon, the 42-year-old female driver of the Ford Galaxy and a 3-year-old male passenger in the Ford Galaxy were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Jun 2021
- Monday, 09:37
- Vehicles
- 2
- Seat Leon and Ford Galaxy
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.04929, longitude 0.44846, in the TN5 postcode district. 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
- 2021471055513
- 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
- 21
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 23 September 2022.
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A21 in Rother, 23 September 2022
At the same spotRef 2022471222479
Fatal
Suzuki crash on the A21 in Rother, 16 June 1991
5 m awayRef 199147TA10280
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the A21 in Rother, 11 December 1997
5 m awayRef 199747TA70650
Slight
Audi TT crash on the A21 in Rother, 1 June 2023
5 m awayRef 2023471313963
Slight
Van crash on the A21 in Rother, 12 October 1988
14 m awayRef 198847TA80528
Fatal
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the A2100 in Rother, 10 September 2000
14 m awayRef 200047T126494
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Seat Leon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Galaxy
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
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Leon)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Galaxy)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 3, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Galaxy)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 2021471055513 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 2021.