A25 crash in Tonbridge and Malling on 27 February 2013 at 17:50 involving a Mercedes A Class
A Mercedes A Class and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A25 in Tonbridge and Malling at 17:50 on Wednesday 27 February 2013. The 46-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Feb 2013
- Wednesday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes A Class and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.29041, longitude 0.31147, in the TN15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Borough Green. It is one of the crashes that make up the Borough Green & Platt, Tonbridge and Malling, TN15 8ER area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013460224647
- 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
- 25
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 April 2017.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A25 in Tonbridge and Malling, 21 April 2017
14 m awayRef 2017460178178
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A25 in Tonbridge and Malling, 23 September 2014
30 m awayRef 2014460247819
Serious
Renault Trafic crash on the A25 in Tonbridge and Malling, 3 March 2013
32 m awayRef 2013460224752
Serious
Renault 5 crash on the A25 in Tonbridge and Malling, 20 April 2002
36 m awayRef 200246WK57288
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A25 in Tonbridge and Malling, 15 June 2001
40 m awayRef 200146WK43260
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A25 in Tonbridge and Malling, 25 December 1985
42 m awayRef 1985461214625
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,397 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- 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
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 46, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 2013460224647 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 2013.