A228 crash in Tonbridge and Malling on 11 August 2009 at 22:25 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A228 in Tonbridge and Malling at 22:25 on Tuesday 11 August 2009. The 17-year-old male driver and a 17-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Aug 2009
- Tuesday, 22:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.21168, longitude 0.39831, in the TN12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Tonbridge and Malling
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009460175605
- Council area
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 228
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 71 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 March 2012.
Slight
Volkswagen Caddy crash on the A228 in Tonbridge and Malling, 8 March 2012
71 m awayRef 2012460211352
Serious
Suzuki GSXR 750 crash on the A228 in Tonbridge and Malling, 21 June 2018
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Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the A228 in Tonbridge and Malling, 29 August 2007
133 m awayRef 2007460146021
Slight
Iveco crash on the A228 in Tonbridge and Malling, 3 June 2008
141 m awayRef 2008460158159
Slight
Car crash on the B2015 in Tonbridge and Malling, 26 May 1988
202 m awayRef 198846AB05488
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Tonbridge and Malling, 26 April 2015
206 m awayRef 2015460260701
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 2009460175605 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tonbridge and Malling road accident statistics for 2009.