Unclassified road crash in Sevenoaks TN8 on 9 January 2009 at 08:50 involving an Audi A4
A car and an Audi A4 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sevenoaks at 08:50 on Friday 9 January 2009. The 24-year-old male driver of the car and the 60-year-old male driver of the Audi A4 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Jan 2009
- Friday, 08:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Audi A4
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.22203, longitude 0.04753, 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
- 2009460167655
- Council area
- Sevenoaks
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Frost or ice
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, 381 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 April 1989.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sevenoaks, 27 April 1989
381 m awayRef 198946CC37859
Slight
Car crash on the B2026 in Sevenoaks, 2 August 1985
625 m awayRef 1985463307045
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B2026 in Sevenoaks, 22 June 1990
625 m awayRef 199046CD73490
Slight
Car crash on the B2026 in Sevenoaks, 24 March 1987
646 m awayRef 1987463302017
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B2026 in Sevenoaks, 28 June 1992
655 m awayRef 1992461207501
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B2026 in Sevenoaks, 2 September 1994
662 m awayRef 1994461215957
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi A4)
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 2009460167655 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 2009.