Serious unclassified road crash in Rother TN40 on 19 December 2020 at 18:30 involving a Honda Civic
A Honda Civic hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Rother at 18:30 on Saturday 19 December 2020. A 41-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Dec 2020
- Saturday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda Civic
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.84497, longitude 0.50241, 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
- 2020471008573
- 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
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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 lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 March 2003.
Slight
Honda Prelude crash on the A259 in Rother, 2 March 2003
7 m awayRef 200347K160574
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A259 in Rother, 1 August 2002
15 m awayRef 200247K153178
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 5 February 2002
29 m awayRef 200247T147161
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A259 in Rother, 27 July 2006
43 m awayRef 2006470606345
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the A259 in Rother, 19 December 2023
45 m awayRef 2023471390296
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A259 in Rother, 21 May 2019
45 m awayRef 2019471902603
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,799 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 41, hit by vehicle 1 (Honda Civic)
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
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 2020471008573 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 2020.