A259 crash in Rother on 20 July 2021 at 08:10 involving a Fiat 500
A Fiat 500 and a Sinnis ZS 125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A259 in Rother at 08:10 on Tuesday 20 July 2021. The male rider of the Sinnis ZS 125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jul 2021
- Tuesday, 08:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat 500 and Sinnis ZS 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84577, longitude 0.39764, in the TN39 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bexhill St Marks, Rother, TN39 4QR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021471068597
- Council area
- Rother
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 259
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 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, 17 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 March 2023.
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the A259 in Rother, 5 March 2023
17 m awayRef 2023471283201
Slight
Audi A1 crash on the A259 in Rother, 10 November 2022
28 m awayRef 2022471252667
Serious
Hyundai Tucson crash on the A259 in Rother, 10 June 2022
35 m awayRef 2022471186431
Slight
Mercedes Vito crash on the A259 in Rother, 22 July 2013
38 m awayRef 2013471303792
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A259 in Rother, 20 April 2007
40 m awayRef 2007470703297
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A259 in Rother, 6 February 2013
45 m awayRef 2013471300716
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Sinnis ZS 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Sinnis ZS 125)
- 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 2021471068597 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.