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Serious B2110 crash in Tunbridge Wells on 11 August 1979 at 23:00 involving a motor scooter

A motor scooter crashed on the B2110 in Tunbridge Wells at 23:00 on Saturday 11 August 1979. The 30-year-old male rider was seriously injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
11 Aug 1979
Saturday, 23:00
Vehicles
1
Motor scooter
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.12427, longitude 0.19495, in the TN3 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Tunbridge Wells

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1979464104479
Council area
Tunbridge Wells
Police force
Kent

Road and location details

First road class
B
First road number
2110
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph

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, no street lighting
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 72 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 July 2017.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motor scooter

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    30 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 30, motor scooter rider or passenger, on vehicle 1 (Motor scooter)

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 1979464104479 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tunbridge Wells road accident statistics for 1979.