A21 crash in Tunbridge Wells on 24 November 1995 at 09:40 involving a Nissan Prairie
A Nissan Prairie and a Ford Orion were involved in a crash on the A21 in Tunbridge Wells at 09:40 on Friday 24 November 1995. The 19-year-old female driver of the Ford Orion was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Nov 1995
- Friday, 09:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Prairie and Ford Orion
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.07939, longitude 0.41827, in the TN5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Tunbridge Wells
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199546WL23835
- Council area
- Tunbridge Wells
- Police force
- Kent
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 21
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 July 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A21 in Sevenoaks, 26 July 1983
10 m awayRef 1983464104033
Slight
Lorry crash on the A21 in Tunbridge Wells, 21 December 1985
10 m awayRef 1985461314915
Fatal
Ford Escort crash on the A21 in Tunbridge Wells, 12 November 1994
10 m awayRef 1994461116587
Fatal
Car crash on the A21 in Tunbridge Wells, 28 June 1981
10 m awayRef 1981464103821
Slight
Car crash on the A21 in Tunbridge Wells, 15 August 1980
10 m awayRef 1980464105450
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A21 in Tunbridge Wells, 24 October 2022
13 m awayRef 2022461236698
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Prairie
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,974 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Orion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,608 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Orion)
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 199546WL23835 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.