B2189 crash in Tunbridge Wells on 9 October 2000 at 16:50 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B2189 in Tunbridge Wells at 16:50 on Monday 9 October 2000. A 13-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Oct 2000
- Monday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.09612, longitude 0.53815, in the TN17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cranbrook.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200046WL30107
- Council area
- Tunbridge Wells
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2189
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 May 1994.
Slight
Car crash on the B2189 in Tunbridge Wells, 24 May 1994
22 m awayRef 1994461114843
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Tunbridge Wells, 12 February 2023
27 m awayRef 2023461278455
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B2189 in Tunbridge Wells, 3 May 1995
28 m awayRef 199546WL20951
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the B2189 in Tunbridge Wells, 13 November 1999
28 m awayRef 199946WL09045
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B2189 in Tunbridge Wells, 13 June 2002
32 m awayRef 200246WL59021
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B2189 in Tunbridge Wells, 21 August 1989
54 m awayRef 198946AC08779
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,849 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 200046WL30107 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 2000.