M20 crash in Tonbridge and Malling on 25 April 2005 at 09:00 involving a car
A vehicle and a car were involved in a crash on the M20 in Tonbridge and Malling at 09:00 on Monday 25 April 2005. The 46-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet slip road with a 70 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Apr 2005
- Monday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vehicle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.30682, longitude 0.35017, in the TN15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Tonbridge and Malling
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005460109480
- Council area
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 20
- Road type
- Slip road
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Motorway
- Second road number
- 20
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 40 metres away, was a fatal crash on 15 December 2005.
Fatal
Fiat Punto crash on the M20 in Tonbridge and Malling, 15 December 2005
40 m awayRef 2005460119942
Slight
Car crash on the M20 in Tonbridge and Malling, 10 July 1985
41 m awayRef 1985461206535
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the M20 in Tonbridge and Malling, 3 March 1996
54 m awayRef 199646MA21487
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the M20 in Tonbridge and Malling, 29 October 2025
79 m awayRef 2025461660898
Slight
Car crash on the M20 in Tonbridge and Malling, 13 November 2008
102 m awayRef 2008460164846
Slight
MAN crash on the M20 in Tonbridge and Malling, 21 October 2002
104 m awayRef 200246MA66363
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1
Vehicle type not recorded
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2005460109480 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 2005.