A21 crash in Tonbridge and Malling on 1 February 2008 at 13:34 involving a Fiat Doblo van
A Fiat Doblo van crashed on the A21 in Tonbridge and Malling at 13:34 on Friday 1 February 2008. The 35-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Feb 2008
- Friday, 13:34
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Doblo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.23374, longitude 0.21451, in the TN11 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hildenborough, Tonbridge and Malling, TN11 8NN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tonbridge and Malling
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008460153816
- Council area
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 21
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 October 1992.
Serious
Daihatsu Sportrak crash on the A21 in Tonbridge and Malling, 19 October 1992
10 m awayRef 1992461208647
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the A21 in Tonbridge and Malling, 3 January 2016
14 m awayRef 2016460265421
Slight
Peugeot Expert crash on the A21 in Tonbridge and Malling, 18 June 2006
22 m awayRef 2006460133485
Serious
Yamaha YZF R1 crash on the A21 in Tonbridge and Malling, 20 May 2001
22 m awayRef 200146WK41374
Serious
Renault 21 crash on the A21 in Tonbridge and Malling, 31 December 1996
28 m awayRef 199646WK24643
Slight
Seat Leon crash on the A21 in Tonbridge and Malling, 18 December 2023
40 m awayRef 2023461398322
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Doblo
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- 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 onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 35, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Doblo)
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 2008460153816 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tonbridge and Malling road accident statistics for 2008.