B2189 crash in Tunbridge Wells on 30 January 1996 at 15:15 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B2189 in Tunbridge Wells at 15:15 on Tuesday 30 January 1996. A 15-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jan 1996
- Tuesday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.09566, longitude 0.53752, in the TN17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cranbrook.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199646WL24795
- Council area
- Tunbridge Wells
- Police force
- Kent
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2189
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 14 October 1996.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Tunbridge Wells, 14 October 1996
10 m awayRef 199646WL28444
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Tunbridge Wells, 23 November 2024
13 m awayRef 2024461521469
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on a C road in Tunbridge Wells, 1 March 1994
22 m awayRef 1994461114031
Slight
Vauxhall Astravan crash on a C road in Tunbridge Wells, 3 October 1997
22 m awayRef 199746WL01030
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Tunbridge Wells, 31 October 1980
22 m awayRef 1980464107320
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B2189 in Tunbridge Wells, 21 August 1989
22 m awayRef 198946AC08779
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 199646WL24795 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 1996.