A264 crash in Tunbridge Wells on 12 April 1997 at 22:00 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra, a Vauxhall Cavalier and a car were involved in a crash on the A264 in Tunbridge Wells at 22:00 on Saturday 12 April 1997. A 27-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Cavalier was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Apr 1997
- Saturday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Sierra and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.13056, longitude 0.25199, in the TN4 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199746WK25744
- Council area
- Tunbridge Wells
- Police force
- Kent
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 264
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 November 1994.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A264 in Tunbridge Wells, 5 November 1994
At the same spotRef 1994461116586
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A264 in Tunbridge Wells, 23 July 1993
At the same spotRef 1993461111582
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A264 in Tunbridge Wells, 18 July 1998
At the same spotRef 199846WK30746
Slight
Suzuki Wagon R+ crash on the A264 in Tunbridge Wells, 19 September 2003
At the same spotRef 200346WK82837
Slight
MG Metro crash on the A264 in Tunbridge Wells, 19 February 1991
At the same spotRef 199146AC32551
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A264 in Tunbridge Wells, 7 August 2003
At the same spotRef 200346WK80644
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,593 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 199746WK25744 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 1997.