B2023 crash in Tunbridge Wells on 1 October 1993 at 13:00 involving a Saab 900
A car and a Saab 900 were involved in a crash on the B2023 in Tunbridge Wells at 13:00 on Friday 1 October 1993. The 61-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Oct 1993
- Friday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Saab 900
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.13132, longitude 0.2729, in the TN2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Royal Tunbridge Wells.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1993461112224
- Council area
- Tunbridge Wells
- Police force
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2023
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 2023
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 December 2009.
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the B2023 in Tunbridge Wells, 21 December 2009
At the same spotRef 2009460183131
Slight
Saab 99 crash on the B2023 in Tunbridge Wells, 23 June 1994
At the same spotRef 1994461115054
Slight
Mazda 626 crash on the B2023 in Tunbridge Wells, 4 November 1995
At the same spotRef 199546WK20266
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the B2023 in Tunbridge Wells, 2 July 2013
At the same spotRef 2013460229215
Slight
Austin Morris Mini crash on the B2023 in Tunbridge Wells, 8 April 1993
At the same spotRef 1993461110497
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the B2023 in Tunbridge Wells, 12 March 1993
At the same spotRef 1993461110217
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 61 years
Vehicle 2: Saab 900
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,985 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 61, 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 1993461112224 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 1993.