A20 crash in Tonbridge and Malling on 24 July 1996 at 12:35 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A20 in Tonbridge and Malling at 12:35 on Wednesday 24 July 1996. The 19-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jul 1996
- Wednesday, 12:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.31175, longitude 0.31323, in the TN15 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199646WK22983
- Council area
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Police force
- Kent
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 20
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 20
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 24 September 2004.
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Kawasaki ZX600 crash on the A20 in Tonbridge and Malling, 5 August 1998
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Serious
Tractor crash on the A20 in Tonbridge and Malling, 18 August 2025
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Serious
Suzuki crash on the A20 in Tonbridge and Malling, 9 September 1991
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Serious
Kawasaki ZX900 crash on the A20 in Tonbridge and Malling, 25 July 2003
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 199646WK22983 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 1996.