A268 crash in Tunbridge Wells on 31 March 2009 at 19:12 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A268 in Tunbridge Wells at 19:12 on Tuesday 31 March 2009. A 23-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Mar 2009
- Tuesday, 19:12
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.04743, longitude 0.51038, in the TN18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hawkhurst. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hawkhurst, Sandhurst & Benenden, Tunbridge Wells, TN18 4BL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tunbridge Wells
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009460170658
- 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
- 268
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 229
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 April 2009.
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A268 in Tunbridge Wells, 12 April 2009
10 m awayRef 2009460170820
Serious
DAF Trucks Fad 85CF crash on the A268 in Tunbridge Wells, 20 September 2007
10 m awayRef 2007460146992
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A268 in Tunbridge Wells, 4 September 2020
19 m awayRef 2020460981659
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the A229 in Tunbridge Wells, 31 May 2013
30 m awayRef 2013460228155
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A268 in Tunbridge Wells, 30 June 2006
32 m awayRef 2006460128004
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A229 in Tunbridge Wells, 30 June 2006
32 m awayRef 2006460128500
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 23, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 2009460170658 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 2009.