Road crashes in Rother

6,839 recorded collisions since 2000.

Rother has recorded 6,839 road collisions since 2000, 165 of them fatal and 1,565 causing serious injury. That makes it the 236th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 25% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 24.1 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 37% since 2000, from 350 to 222 in 2024. The A259 is the most affected road locally, with 1,099 collisions.

Figures cover collisions reported to police (STATS19) from 2000 onward; severity definitions changed over time, so treat long-range trends with care. Source: DfT STATS19, Open Government Licence v3.0.