A267 crash in Tunbridge Wells on 20 January 2007 at 21:28 involving a Mercedes Vito van
A Mercedes Vito van crashed on the A267 in Tunbridge Wells at 21:28 on Saturday 20 January 2007. The 39-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jan 2007
- Saturday, 21:28
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes Vito
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.12604, longitude 0.25895, in the TN2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Royal Tunbridge Wells. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pantiles, Tunbridge Wells, TN2 5QY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tunbridge Wells
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007460136790
- Council area
- Tunbridge Wells
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 267
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 2 December 2002.
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Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A267 in Tunbridge Wells, 17 May 1991
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Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A267 in Tunbridge Wells, 11 January 1994
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Vito
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,148 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes Vito)
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 2007460136790 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 2007.