A229 crash in Tunbridge Wells on 15 December 2010 at 07:00 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A229 in Tunbridge Wells at 07:00 on Wednesday 15 December 2010. The 17-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Dec 2010
- Wednesday, 07:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.0912, longitude 0.52032, in the TN17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hartley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cranbrook, Sissinghurst & Frittenden, Tunbridge Wells, TN17 3QS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tunbridge Wells
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010460195114
- 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
- 229
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 22 April 2007.
Serious
Suzuki GSXR 1000 crash on the A229 in Tunbridge Wells, 22 April 2007
At the same spotRef 2007460140617
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A229 in Tunbridge Wells, 28 February 2002
At the same spotRef 200246WL54556
Slight
Suzuki GSF 1200 crash on the A229 in Tunbridge Wells, 5 September 2012
At the same spotRef 2012460218129
Slight
Leyland DAF FA 65 crash on the A229 in Tunbridge Wells, 24 October 2006
At the same spotRef 2006460132884
Slight
Car crash on the A229 in Tunbridge Wells, 21 May 2008
At the same spotRef 2008460157746
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A229 in Tunbridge Wells, 23 April 2008
10 m awayRef 2008460156539
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 2010460195114 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 2010.