Serious A26 crash in Tunbridge Wells on 27 July 1995 at 17:20
A vehicle hit a pedestrian on the A26 in Tunbridge Wells at 17:20 on Thursday 27 July 1995. A 5-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Jul 1995
- Thursday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.15604, longitude 0.25981, in the TN4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southborough.
Map of where the crash happened in Tunbridge Wells
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199546WK19263
- Council area
- Tunbridge Wells
- Police force
- Kent
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 26
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 26
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 slight injury crash on 5 October 1997.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A26 in Tunbridge Wells, 5 October 1997
At the same spotRef 199746WK27537
Slight
Rover Mini crash on the A26 in Tunbridge Wells, 18 October 1991
At the same spotRef 199146AC51811
Serious
Kawasaki crash on the A26 in Tunbridge Wells, 5 July 2005
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Slight
Yamaha crash on the A26 in Tunbridge Wells, 29 August 1994
At the same spotRef 1994461115717
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A26 in Tunbridge Wells, 12 April 2022
9 m awayRef 2022461169680
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A26 in Tunbridge Wells, 27 October 2025
10 m awayRef 2025461661008
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 5, hit by vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 199546WK19263 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 1995.