B2160 crash in Tunbridge Wells on 8 March 2006 at 18:16 involving a Suzuki Ignis
A Suzuki Ignis crashed on the B2160 in Tunbridge Wells at 18:16 on Wednesday 8 March 2006. The 35-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Mar 2006
- Wednesday, 18:16
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki Ignis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.13796, longitude 0.35231, in the TN12 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rural Tunbridge Wells, Tunbridge Wells, TN12 7HE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006460123145
- 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
- 2160
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Authorised person
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 August 2015.
Slight
Chevrolet Matiz crash on the B2160 in Tunbridge Wells, 13 August 2015
10 m awayRef 2015460260245
Serious
Renault 11 crash on the B2160 in Tunbridge Wells, 21 September 1991
20 m awayRef 199146AC49031
Serious
Alfa Romeo Asd crash on the B2160 in Tunbridge Wells, 10 April 1994
32 m awayRef 1994461214504
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Tunbridge Wells, 20 May 2007
42 m awayRef 2007460141625
Slight
Seat Leon crash on the B2160 in Tunbridge Wells, 2 May 2024
45 m awayRef 2024461443261
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B2160 in Tunbridge Wells, 17 September 1990
50 m awayRef 199046AC19360
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Ignis
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,328 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki Ignis)
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 2006460123145 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 2006.