B2085 crash in Tunbridge Wells on 20 December 2005 at 14:10 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the B2085 in Tunbridge Wells at 14:10 on Tuesday 20 December 2005. The 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2005
- Tuesday, 14:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.09641, longitude 0.4996, in the TN17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Tunbridge Wells
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005460121776
- 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
- 2085
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 August 2007.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B2085 in Tunbridge Wells, 23 August 2007
14 m awayRef 2007460146078
Serious
Saab 900 crash on the B2085 in Tunbridge Wells, 17 May 1992
14 m awayRef 1992461107195
Serious
Peugeot 407 crash on the B2085 in Tunbridge Wells, 11 September 2025
46 m awayRef 2025461640200
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B2085 in Tunbridge Wells, 10 July 2006
78 m awayRef 2006460128598
Slight
Renault Trafic crash on the B2085 in Tunbridge Wells, 14 July 2020
89 m awayRef 2020460965980
Slight
Car crash on the B2085 in Tunbridge Wells, 17 January 1984
120 m awayRef 1984464100214
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 2005460121776 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 2005.