A259 crash in Rother on 15 August 2022 at 13:45 involving a Honda Jazz
A car and a Honda Jazz were involved in a crash on the A259 in Rother at 13:45 on Monday 15 August 2022. The 45-year-old male driver of the Honda Jazz, a 34-year-old female passenger in the Honda Jazz and a 7-year-old female passenger in the Honda Jazz were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Aug 2022
- Monday, 13:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Honda Jazz
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.92118, longitude 0.70271, in the TN36 postcode district and within the built-up area of Winchelsea Beach. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rye & Winchelsea, Rother, TN36 4EB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022471209770
- 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
- 259
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 June 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Rother, 26 June 1982
8 m awayRef 198247TA20280
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A259 in Rother, 29 August 1992
13 m awayRef 199247TA20402
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A259 in Rother, 14 August 2018
15 m awayRef 2018471804529
Slight
Van crash on the A259 in Rother, 12 August 1984
26 m awayRef 198447TA40364
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Rother, 14 April 1979
43 m awayRef 197947TA90161
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A259 in Rother, 14 October 1979
43 m awayRef 197947TA90509
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- Yes
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
Vehicle 2: Honda Jazz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,339 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Honda Jazz)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Honda Jazz)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 7, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Honda Jazz)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- 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 2022471209770 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.