B2085 crash in Tunbridge Wells on 10 July 2008 at 07:30 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the B2085 in Tunbridge Wells at 07:30 on Thursday 10 July 2008. The 21-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Jul 2008
- Thursday, 07:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.09287, longitude 0.50541, in the TN17 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008460160481
- Council area
- Tunbridge Wells
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2085
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 February 1992.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B2085 in Tunbridge Wells, 29 February 1992
14 m awayRef 1992461106386
Slight
Car crash on the B2085 in Tunbridge Wells, 24 April 1998
14 m awayRef 199846WL04337
Slight
Car crash on the B2085 in Tunbridge Wells, 9 December 2004
36 m awayRef 200446WL03691
Slight
Car crash on the B2085 in Tunbridge Wells, 10 February 1985
41 m awayRef 1985461300885
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B2085 in Tunbridge Wells, 1 February 2001
67 m awayRef 200146WL35938
Slight
Car crash on the B2085 in Tunbridge Wells, 19 April 2008
98 m awayRef 2008460156207
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- 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
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2008460160481 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 2008.