C road crash in Sevenoaks DA3 on 20 December 2012 at 09:00 involving a Peugeot Expert
A Peugeot Expert and a Vauxhall Zafira were involved in a crash on a C road in Sevenoaks at 09:00 on Thursday 20 December 2012. The 73-year-old male driver of the Peugeot Expert, an 18-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Zafira and a 74-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Zafira were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2012
- Thursday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot Expert and Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.38849, longitude 0.30434, in the DA3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Longfield, New Ash Green and Hartley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hartley and Hodsoll Street, Sevenoaks, DA3 7RW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sevenoaks
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012460222745
- Council area
- Sevenoaks
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 June 1993.
Slight
DAF Trucks FA 1900 DNS crash on a C road in Sevenoaks, 2 June 1993
At the same spotRef 1993460219229
Slight
Citroen BX crash on a C road in Sevenoaks, 2 May 2003
At the same spotRef 200346NK75950
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Sevenoaks, 12 February 1993
At the same spotRef 1993460217616
Serious
Ford Transit crash on a C road in Sevenoaks, 22 March 1994
At the same spotRef 1994460123613
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Sevenoaks, 8 August 2001
At the same spotRef 200146NK45884
Slight
Ford Sapphire crash on a C road in Sevenoaks, 11 June 1992
At the same spotRef 1992460213823
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Expert
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 73 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 73, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot Expert)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 74, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- 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 2012460222745 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 2012.