A227 crash in Tonbridge and Malling on 24 February 1981 at 23:20 involving a car
A car crashed on the A227 in Tonbridge and Malling at 23:20 on Tuesday 24 February 1981. The 53-year-old male driver was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Feb 1981
- Tuesday, 23:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.28082, longitude 0.28558, in the TN15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ightham.
Map of where the crash happened in Tonbridge and Malling
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981461201351
- Council area
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Police force
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 227
- 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, 71 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 September 2010.
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on the A227 in Tonbridge and Malling, 9 September 2010
71 m awayRef 2010460191135
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A227 in Tonbridge and Malling, 15 October 2016
81 m awayRef 2016460118503
Slight
Car crash on the A227 in Tonbridge and Malling, 17 December 2021
100 m awayRef 2021461130506
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A227 in Tonbridge and Malling, 11 July 2004
136 m awayRef 200446WK96406
Serious
Car crash on the A227 in Tonbridge and Malling, 24 February 1988
141 m awayRef 198846AB02028
Slight
Car crash on the A227 in Tonbridge and Malling, 16 September 1989
141 m awayRef 198946AB09849
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 1981461201351 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tonbridge and Malling road accident statistics for 1981.