C road crash in Sevenoaks TN8 on 15 April 2008 at 08:20 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on a C road in Sevenoaks at 08:20 on Tuesday 15 April 2008. The 43-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Apr 2008
- Tuesday, 08:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.19529, longitude 0.10989, in the TN8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Sevenoaks
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008460156288
- Council area
- Sevenoaks
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Mud
- Carriageway hazards
- Mud
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%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 March 2004.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on a C road in Sevenoaks, 20 March 2004
10 m awayRef 200446WK91120
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sevenoaks, 22 September 1985
36 m awayRef 1985463308705
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Sevenoaks, 19 May 1988
36 m awayRef 198846CC09118
Slight
Skoda Rapid crash on a C road in Sevenoaks, 10 June 1991
61 m awayRef 199146CC03771
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sevenoaks, 13 December 1985
85 m awayRef 1985463312095
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on a C road in Sevenoaks, 13 April 1992
114 m awayRef 1992461206843
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 2008460156288 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 2008.