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Serious A21 crash in Sevenoaks on 19 November 1985 at 21:25 involving a car

A car crashed on the A21 in Sevenoaks at 21:25 on Tuesday 19 November 1985. The 36-year-old male driver was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in snow on a dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
19 Nov 1985
Tuesday, 21:25
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.29249, longitude 0.14416, in the TN14 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Sevenoaks

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1985463311075
Council area
Sevenoaks
Police force
Kent

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
21
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
70 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
Snowing, no high winds
Road surface
Snow

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 40 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 December 2000.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    Skidding and overturning
    Overturned
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    36 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Male, aged 36, 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 1985463311075 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Sevenoaks road accident statistics for 1985.