Unclassified road crash in Tunbridge Wells TN2 on 1 September 2007 at 14:20 involving a Subaru Legacy
A Subaru Legacy crashed on an unclassified road in Tunbridge Wells at 14:20 on Saturday 1 September 2007. A 32-year-old female passenger and a 43-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Sep 2007
- Saturday, 14:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Subaru Legacy
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.14816, longitude 0.27804, 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 Sherwood, Tunbridge Wells, TN2 3YA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007460146237
- Council area
- Tunbridge Wells
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Subaru Legacy
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,457 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Subaru Legacy)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Subaru Legacy)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2007460146237 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.