Serious unclassified road crash in Tonbridge and Malling TN15 on 14 October 1985 at 00:16 involving a car
A car and another vehicle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Tonbridge and Malling at 00:16 on Monday 14 October 1985. The 76-year-old male driver of the car was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Oct 1985
- Monday, 00:16
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.2921, longitude 0.30622, in the TN15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Borough Green.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985461211315
- Council area
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Police force
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 5 February 1988.
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Motorcycle crash on the A227 in Tonbridge and Malling, 12 July 1985
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 76 years
Vehicle 2: Other vehicle
- Towing and articulation
- Other tow
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 76, 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 1985461211315 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 1985.