A264 crash in Tunbridge Wells on 8 December 1979 at 15:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A264 in Tunbridge Wells at 15:00 on Saturday 8 December 1979. A 16-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Dec 1979
- Saturday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.13464, longitude 0.26406, in the TN1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Royal Tunbridge Wells.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979464107569
- Council area
- Tunbridge Wells
- Police force
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 264
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 25 June 1979.
Serious
Car crash on the A26 in Tunbridge Wells, 25 June 1979
At the same spotRef 1979464103269
Slight
Car crash on the A264 in Tunbridge Wells, 28 February 1981
At the same spotRef 1981464101021
Slight
Car crash on the A264 in Tunbridge Wells, 24 December 1982
At the same spotRef 1982464108682
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Tunbridge Wells, 14 August 1982
At the same spotRef 1982464105022
Slight
Car crash on the A264 in Tunbridge Wells, 29 July 1989
At the same spotRef 198946AC07529
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Tunbridge Wells, 22 December 1985
At the same spotRef 1985461314405
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 1979464107569 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.