Unclassified road crash in Tonbridge and Malling ME19 on 4 July 2013 at 14:27 involving a Vauxhall Meriva
A car and a Vauxhall Meriva were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Tonbridge and Malling at 14:27 on Thursday 4 July 2013. A 23-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Meriva was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Jul 2013
- Thursday, 14:27
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Vauxhall Meriva
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.32635, longitude 0.4462, in the ME19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Snodland. It is one of the crashes that make up the Snodland East & Ham Hill, Tonbridge and Malling, ME6 5NT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tonbridge and Malling
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013460229260
- Council area
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 228
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 November 2020.
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A228 in Tonbridge and Malling, 5 November 2020
4 m awayRef 2020460997043
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A228 in Tonbridge and Malling, 19 November 2003
10 m awayRef 200346MA85442
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the A228 in Tonbridge and Malling, 26 January 2000
10 m awayRef 200046MA12577
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A228 in Tonbridge and Malling, 13 December 2014
10 m awayRef 2014460250830
Serious
Toyota Prius crash on the A228 in Tonbridge and Malling, 16 November 2021
13 m awayRef 2021461113582
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A228 in Tonbridge and Malling, 13 December 1999
14 m awayRef 199946MA11155
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- 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
- 50 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Meriva
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Meriva)
- 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 2013460229260 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.