A21 crash in Tonbridge and Malling on 20 February 2010 at 07:05 involving a car
A car crashed on the A21 in Tonbridge and Malling at 07:05 on Saturday 20 February 2010. The 24-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Feb 2010
- Saturday, 07:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.1899, longitude 0.23531, in the TN11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Tonbridge and Malling
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010460183367
- 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
- 21
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- 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
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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 10 November 1980.
Serious
Car crash on the A21 in Tonbridge and Malling, 10 November 1980
10 m awayRef 1980461308820
Slight
Lorry crash on the A21 in Tonbridge and Malling, 18 February 1980
10 m awayRef 1980461301300
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A21 in Tonbridge and Malling, 4 May 1979
10 m awayRef 1979461103089
Serious
Lorry crash on the A21 in Tonbridge and Malling, 2 November 1981
10 m awayRef 1981461309221
Slight
Volkswagen Caddy crash on the A21 in Tonbridge and Malling, 8 May 2007
32 m awayRef 2007460141080
Fatal
Car crash on the A21 in Tonbridge and Malling, 24 March 1985
90 m awayRef 1985461202665
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2010460183367 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 2010.