Unclassified road crash in Rother TN40 on 16 May 2024 at 08:30 involving a BMW X5
A car and a BMW X5 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Rother at 08:30 on Thursday 16 May 2024. A 12-year-old female passenger in the BMW X5 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry road with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 May 2024
- Thursday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and BMW X5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84184, longitude 0.48224, in the TN40 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexhill-on-Sea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bexhill Central, Rother, TN40 1QX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024471445190
- Council area
- Rother
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Daylight
- 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, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 June 1991.
Slight
Lada Riva crash on the A269 in Rother, 10 June 1991
30 m awayRef 199147TA10259
Serious
Toyota crash on the A269 in Rother, 2 September 2020
39 m awayRef 2020470977613
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A269 in Rother, 17 August 2000
42 m awayRef 200047T125808
Serious
Toyota Corolla crash on the A269 in Rother, 21 January 2010
46 m awayRef 2010471000468
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A269 in Rother, 20 January 1979
52 m awayRef 197947TA90029
Slight
Renault 18 crash on the A269 in Rother, 26 January 1992
52 m awayRef 199247TA20039
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
Vehicle 2: BMW X5
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
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 12, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW X5)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2024471445190 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 2024.