A259 crash in Rother on 26 June 2012 at 14:39 involving a Honda CBF500 motorcycle
A car and a Honda CBF500 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A259 in Rother at 14:39 on Tuesday 26 June 2012. The 21-year-old male rider of the Honda CBF500 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jun 2012
- Tuesday, 14:39
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Honda CBF500
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84568, longitude 0.44767, in the TN39 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexhill-on-Sea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bexhill Kewhurst, Rother, TN39 3TW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012471203301
- 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
- Urban
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 May 2022.
Slight
Suzuki GSXS crash on the A259 in Rother, 6 May 2022
11 m awayRef 2022471173702
Slight
Bedford crash on the A259 in Rother, 10 June 1991
14 m awayRef 199147TA10263
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A259 in Rother, 13 November 2007
14 m awayRef 2007470709474
Serious
Hyundai i10 crash on the A259 in Rother, 26 February 2017
17 m awayRef 2017471701141
Serious
Audi A3 crash on the A259 in Rother, 25 September 2019
21 m awayRef 2019470881370
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A259 in Rother, 16 October 2016
30 m awayRef 2016471606219
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Honda CBF500
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Honda CBF500)
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 2012471203301 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 2012.