Serious A21 crash in Rother on 8 February 2025 at 09:00 involving a Vauxhall Adam
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Feb 2025
- Saturday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Adam
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.05413, longitude 0.44585, in the TN5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Flimwell. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hurst Green & Ticehurst, Rother, TN5 7QH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025471551995
- 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
- 21
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 268
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Human crossing control by other authorised person
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Very 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 February 2014.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A21 in Rother, 15 February 2014
4 m awayRef 2014471400892
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A21 in Rother, 10 September 2003
7 m awayRef 200347K166600
Slight
Car crash on the A21 in Rother, 13 August 1983
7 m awayRef 198347TA30372
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A21 in Rother, 21 February 2011
7 m awayRef 2011471101170
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A21 in Rother, 22 June 2003
7 m awayRef 200347K164046
Slight
Mercedes Vito crash on the A21 in Rother, 14 December 2018
18 m awayRef 2018471806950
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Adam
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Adam)
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 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 2025471551995 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 2025.