A259 crash in Rother on 22 July 2014 at 15:30 involving a Honda CBR125R motorcycle
A Honda CBR125R motorcycle and a van were involved in a crash on the A259 in Rother at 15:30 on Tuesday 22 July 2014. A 28-year-old male pedestrian hit by the Honda CBR125R motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Jul 2014
- Tuesday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda CBR125R and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84544, longitude 0.48686, 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 Old Town & Worsham, Rother, TN40 2UN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rother
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014471404182
- 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
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 August 1991.
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A259 in Rother, 5 August 1991
6 m awayRef 199147TA10392
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Rother, 20 September 2023
10 m awayRef 2023471355578
Slight
Austin Morris Mini crash on the A259 in Rother, 2 December 1997
12 m awayRef 199747TA70632
Serious
Volkswagen Transporter crash on the A259 in Rother, 12 December 2016
21 m awayRef 2016471607489
Slight
Yamaha YZF R125 crash on the A259 in Rother, 15 June 2010
22 m awayRef 2010471003891
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A259 in Rother, 17 December 2006
22 m awayRef 2006470611044
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda CBR125R
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 28, hit by vehicle 1 (Honda CBR125R)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 2014471404182 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 2014.