A21 crash in Tunbridge Wells on 15 October 2008 at 17:20 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van crashed on the A21 in Tunbridge Wells at 17:20 on Wednesday 15 October 2008. The 23-year-old male driver and a 23-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 70 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Oct 2008
- Wednesday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.15593, longitude 0.30374, in the TN2 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sherwood, Tunbridge Wells, TN11 0QD area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008460163805
- Council area
- Tunbridge Wells
- 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
- Roundabout
- 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
- 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
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
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%
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 23, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
- 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 2008460163805 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.