A259 crash in Rother on 19 June 2024 at 04:30 involving a Volkswagen Transporter van
A goods vehicle and a Volkswagen Transporter van were involved in a crash on the A259 in Rother at 04:30 on Wednesday 19 June 2024. The 38-year-old male driver of the goods vehicle and the 68-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Transporter van were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Jun 2024
- Wednesday, 04:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Goods vehicle and Volkswagen Transporter
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.94656, longitude 0.73033, in the TN31 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rye. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rye & Winchelsea, Rother, TN31 7JA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024471457764
- 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
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights unlit
- 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 October 2019.
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Rother, 29 October 2019
3 m awayRef 2019470892698
Slight
Dennis crash on the A259 in Rother, 21 September 2010
7 m awayRef 2010471006241
Serious
Nissan Qashqai crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 27 July 2022
7 m awayRef 2022471203249
Slight
Fiat Doblo crash on the A259 in Rother, 2 September 2007
8 m awayRef 2007470707620
Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on the A259 in Rother, 27 June 2001
8 m awayRef 200147T138503
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A259 in Rother, 29 January 1994
8 m awayRef 199447TA40047
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Goods vehicle
Goods vehicle, weight unknown
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- Yes
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Transporter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 38, goods vehicle occupant (weight unknown), in vehicle 1 (Goods vehicle)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 68, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Transporter)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 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 2024471457764 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.