Unclassified road crash in Rother TN5 on 15 October 2024 at 11:48 involving a lorry
A lorry crashed on an unclassified road in Rother at 11:48 on Tuesday 15 October 2024. The 45-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Oct 2024
- Tuesday, 11:48
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.0416, longitude 0.36324, in the TN5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024471504601
- Council area
- Rother
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
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, 107 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 January 1994.
Slight
Renault 19 crash on a C road in Rother, 18 January 1994
107 m awayRef 199447TA40020
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on a C road in Rother, 10 March 2009
146 m awayRef 2009470901758
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 24 January 2019
187 m awayRef 2019471900470
Slight
Austin Metro crash on a C road in Rother, 1 February 1992
195 m awayRef 199247TA20068
Fatal
Car crash on a C road in Rother, 1 February 1983
209 m awayRef 198347TA30049
Slight
Volkswagen 1500 crash on a C road in Rother, 14 October 1992
340 m awayRef 199247TA20493
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 45, goods vehicle occupant (7.5 tonnes and over), in vehicle 1 (Lorry)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 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 2024471504601 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.