B2173 crash in Sevenoaks on 31 December 2007 at 09:00 involving a Nissan Almera
A Nissan Almera and a Renault Clio were involved in a crash on the B2173 in Sevenoaks at 09:00 on Monday 31 December 2007. The 47-year-old female driver of the Renault Clio was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2007
- Monday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Almera and Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.3909, longitude 0.18788, in the BR8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swanley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Farningham, Horton Kirby and South Darenth, Sevenoaks, BR8 8TJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007460151881
- Council area
- Sevenoaks
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2173
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 January 2004.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B2173 in Sevenoaks, 13 January 2004
At the same spotRef 200446NK88396
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B2173 in Sevenoaks, 28 December 1999
At the same spotRef 199946NK12369
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B2173 in Sevenoaks, 6 January 1996
At the same spotRef 199646NK00573
Serious
Toyota Yaris crash on an unclassified road in Sevenoaks, 26 August 2025
1 m awayRef 2025461634092
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Sevenoaks, 3 April 2023
3 m awayRef 2023461295403
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B2173 in Sevenoaks, 15 September 2012
10 m awayRef 2012460218594
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Almera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Clio)
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 2007460151881 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Sevenoaks road accident statistics for 2007.