A269 crash in Rother on 31 December 2025 at 15:15 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira and a Mitsubishi Colt were involved in a crash on the A269 in Rother at 15:15 on Wednesday 31 December 2025. The 65-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Zafira 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
- 31 Dec 2025
- Wednesday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Zafira and Mitsubishi Colt
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.85606, longitude 0.47129, in the TN39 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexhill-on-Sea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bexhill Sidley, Rother, TN39 4FL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025471689816
- Council area
- Rother
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
- Highway authority
- East Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 269
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 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, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 3 November 2003.
Serious
Suzuki Swift crash on the A269 in Rother, 3 November 2003
4 m awayRef 200347K168573
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A269 in Rother, 28 November 2009
4 m awayRef 2009470908943
Serious
Car crash on the A269 in Rother, 2 April 1987
4 m awayRef 198747TA70122
Serious
Car crash on the A269 in Rother, 2 October 1980
4 m awayRef 198047TA00491
Slight
Nissan Stanza crash on the A269 in Rother, 2 September 1995
4 m awayRef 199547TA50412
Serious
Car crash on the A269 in Rother, 17 May 2023
6 m awayRef 2023471312048
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Mitsubishi Colt
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North 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
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2025471689816 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.