Unclassified road crash in Rother TN40 on 31 October 2025 at 22:30 involving a Honda Civic
A Honda Civic crashed on an unclassified road in Rother at 22:30 on Friday 31 October 2025. The 39-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Oct 2025
- Friday, 22:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda Civic
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.8408, longitude 0.49148, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025471662059
- 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
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 April 2011.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 19 April 2011
15 m awayRef 2011471102483
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 12 July 2013
16 m awayRef 2013471303593
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 17 May 2014
34 m awayRef 2014471402679
Serious
Benelli BN crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 26 July 2021
55 m awayRef 2021471070270
Serious
Car crash on the B2182 in Rother, 17 February 1990
56 m awayRef 199047TA00079
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Rother, 15 November 1993
56 m awayRef 199347TA30515
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Civic)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most 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 2025471662059 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.