Serious unclassified road crash in Rother TN40 on 12 July 2013 at 23:38 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on an unclassified road in Rother at 23:38 on Friday 12 July 2013. The 48-year-old female cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Jul 2013
- Friday, 23:38
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84063, longitude 0.49135, 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 Pebsham & St Michaels, Rother, TN40 2NY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013471303593
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 98%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 2%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 April 2011.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 19 April 2011
7 m awayRef 2011471102483
Slight
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 31 October 2025
16 m awayRef 2025471662059
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 17 May 2014
20 m awayRef 2014471402679
Serious
Benelli BN crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 26 July 2021
41 m awayRef 2021471070270
Serious
Car crash on the B2182 in Rother, 17 February 1990
43 m awayRef 199047TA00079
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 15 November 1993
69 m awayRef 199347TA30515
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousFemale, aged 48, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 2013471303593 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 2013.