A265 crash in Rother on 21 February 2022 at 21:45 involving a Peugeot 208
A Peugeot 208 and a Nissan Qashqai were involved in a crash on the A265 in Rother at 21:45 on Monday 21 February 2022. The 78-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 208 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Feb 2022
- Monday, 21:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 208 and Nissan Qashqai
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.99711, longitude 0.38202, in the TN19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Burwash.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022471145866
- 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
- 265
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 February 1996.
Slight
Opel Ascona crash on the B265 in Rother, 14 February 1996
7 m awayRef 199647TA60085
Slight
Renault Trucks Master crash on the A265 in Rother, 3 July 2025
8 m awayRef 2025471611182
Slight
Car crash on the A265 in Rother, 29 August 1985
13 m awayRef 198547TA50423
Slight
Renault Trucks Master crash on the A265 in Rother, 13 September 2023
14 m awayRef 2023471353046
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A265 in Rother, 12 October 2013
22 m awayRef 2013471305842
Serious
Car crash on the A265 in Rother, 4 August 1979
35 m awayRef 197947TA90373
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 208
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 78 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Nissan Qashqai
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 78, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 208)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2022471145866 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 2022.