B2260 crash in Tonbridge and Malling on 24 October 2005 at 20:20 involving a Honda C90 motorcycle
A Honda C90 motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the B2260 in Tonbridge and Malling at 20:20 on Monday 24 October 2005. The 42-year-old male rider and a 49-year-old male pedestrian were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Oct 2005
- Monday, 20:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda C90
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.19758, longitude 0.27547, in the TN9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tonbridge. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cage Green & Angel, Tonbridge and Malling, TN9 1GF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tonbridge and Malling
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005460117181
- Council area
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2260
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 July 2016.
Slight
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Slight
Chrysler PT Cruiser crash on the B2260 in Tonbridge and Malling, 4 December 2001
10 m awayRef 200146WK50781
Slight
Car crash on the A26 in Tonbridge and Malling, 13 January 1997
10 m awayRef 199746WK24821
Serious
Volvo 345 crash on the A26 in Tonbridge and Malling, 1 March 1996
10 m awayRef 199646WK21508
Slight
Honda crash on the B2260 in Tonbridge and Malling, 19 April 2007
10 m awayRef 2007460140449
Slight
Piaggio Zip crash on the B2260 in Tonbridge and Malling, 14 February 2003
10 m awayRef 200346WK71984
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda C90
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 85 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 42, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda C90)
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 49, hit by vehicle 1 (Honda C90)
- 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 2005460117181 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.