A driver walked away unhurt after her car spun across a road and landed on its roof in a field.

The woman was driving a blue Citroen Saxo in Ditching Road, Brighton, at about 6am today when she lost control on a right-hand bend in the bad weather.

The accident happened six days after Brighton and Hove Albion goalkeeper Michel Kuipers crashed on the same stretch of road.

The woman's car crossed to the other side of the road and careered into a field.

Unhurt, the woman, who lives near Brighton, got out and called 999 to report the accident. Relatives arrived to pick her up.

The road was not blocked and there was no fuel spillage.

Police and an ambulance were called to the scene, about a mile off the A27, by a passing motorist who feared someone was still in the car.

However, when they arrived they found no one there.

A spokesman for Hove Road Policing Unit said: "It looks as though the driver came round a tight right-hand bend, lost control, crossed the road and went into a field. The bad weather would not have helped."

Mr Kuipers was driving his yellow Maxia sports car to a training session when he collided with a silver Vauxhall Astra driven by a police officer.

The former Dutch Marine was airlifted to the Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath after being cut from the wreckage with minor head injuries.

The officer was taken to the Princess Royal to be treated for minor wrist injuries.