B2016 crash in Tonbridge and Malling on 24 June 1998 at 07:00 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A car and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the B2016 in Tonbridge and Malling at 07:00 on Wednesday 24 June 1998. A 27-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jun 1998
- Wednesday, 07:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.25302, longitude 0.37205, in the ME18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Tonbridge and Malling
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199846MA30331
- Council area
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Police force
- Kent
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2016
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, 32 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 31 May 2023.
Serious
Citroen Dispatch crash on the B2016 in Tonbridge and Malling, 31 May 2023
32 m awayRef 2023461320147
Slight
Ford KA crash on the B2016 in Tonbridge and Malling, 31 July 2021
46 m awayRef 2021461073359
Slight
Lorry crash on the B2016 in Tonbridge and Malling, 8 May 1997
58 m awayRef 199746MA26081
Slight
Gilera RCR crash on the A26 in Tonbridge and Malling, 2 February 2006
67 m awayRef 2006460122972
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the B2016 in Tonbridge and Malling, 1 June 2021
68 m awayRef 2021461057532
Serious
Lorry crash on the B2016 in Tonbridge and Malling, 1 August 1987
70 m awayRef 1987461208467
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- 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 199846MA30331 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 1998.