B2173 crash in Sevenoaks on 5 September 2000 at 09:50 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a Rover Metro were involved in a crash on the B2173 in Sevenoaks at 09:50 on Tuesday 5 September 2000. The 26-year-old female driver of the Rover Metro was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Sep 2000
- Tuesday, 09:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Rover Metro
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40307, longitude 0.16244, in the BR8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swanley.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200046NK29184
- Council area
- Sevenoaks
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2173
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 May 1995.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B2173 in Sevenoaks, 7 May 1995
At the same spotRef 199546NK29881
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the B2173 in Sevenoaks, 22 October 1992
At the same spotRef 1992460115879
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B2173 in Sevenoaks, 16 April 2002
At the same spotRef 200246NK57376
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the B2173 in Sevenoaks, 11 May 1992
At the same spotRef 1992460113319
Serious
Mitsubishi Grandis crash on the B2173 in Sevenoaks, 2 December 2020
5 m awayRef 2020461004953
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B2173 in Sevenoaks, 21 February 2024
8 m awayRef 2024461412606
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Rover Metro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,118 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover Metro)
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 200046NK29184 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 2000.