A262 crash in Tunbridge Wells on 28 August 1999 at 22:18 involving a Peugeot 106
A Peugeot 106 crashed on the A262 in Tunbridge Wells at 22:18 on Saturday 28 August 1999. The 20-year-old male driver and a 19-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Aug 1999
- Saturday, 22:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 106
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.10975, longitude 0.49404, in the TN17 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199946WL05403
- Council area
- Tunbridge Wells
- Police force
- Kent
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 262
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 2085
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 January 2017.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A262 in Tunbridge Wells, 27 January 2017
8 m awayRef 2017460156034
Slight
Mazda 121 crash on the A262 in Tunbridge Wells, 2 August 2006
10 m awayRef 2006460129313
Serious
Harley-Davidson crash on the A262 in Tunbridge Wells, 6 July 1997
10 m awayRef 199746WL32254
Slight
Citroen C1 crash on the A262 in Tunbridge Wells, 29 January 2018
11 m awayRef 2018460265430
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A262 in Tunbridge Wells, 19 December 2008
14 m awayRef 2008460166363
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A262 in Tunbridge Wells, 22 October 2023
19 m awayRef 2023461377933
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 106
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 106)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 106)
- 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 199946WL05403 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 1999.