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A225 crash in Sevenoaks on 1 April 1997 at 16:40 involving a Suzuki Swift

A Suzuki Swift hit a pedestrian on the A225 in Sevenoaks at 16:40 on Tuesday 1 April 1997. A 14-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.

Severity
Slight
Date
1 Apr 1997
Tuesday, 16:40
Vehicles
1
Suzuki Swift
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.36681, longitude 0.20955, in the DA4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Eynsford and Farningham.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199746NK07580
Council area
Sevenoaks
Police force
Kent
Highway authority
Kent

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
225
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Using private drive or entrance
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

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 27 November 2007.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Suzuki Swift

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    55 years
    Engine capacity
    993 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    2 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Female, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Suzuki Swift)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    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 199746NK07580 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Sevenoaks road accident statistics for 1997.