B2015 crash in Tonbridge and Malling on 5 August 2014 at 23:50 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Volkswagen Bora were involved in a crash on the B2015 in Tonbridge and Malling at 23:50 on Tuesday 5 August 2014. The 52-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Aug 2014
- Tuesday, 23:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Volkswagen Bora
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.25025, longitude 0.42095, in the ME18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wateringbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the East and West Peckham, Mereworth & Wateringbury, Tonbridge and Malling, ME18 5DH 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
- 2014460245294
- Council area
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2015
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 December 1996.
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on the B2015 in Tonbridge and Malling, 6 December 1996
At the same spotRef 199646MA24435
Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on the B2015 in Tonbridge and Malling, 3 October 2016
3 m awayRef 2016460115210
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the B2015 in Tonbridge and Malling, 17 December 2019
13 m awayRef 2019460912788
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B2015 in Tonbridge and Malling, 13 April 2013
14 m awayRef 2013460226226
Slight
Volvo V70 crash on the B2015 in Maidstone, 30 March 2001
40 m awayRef 200146MA39521
Slight
Audi RS3 crash on the B2015 in Tonbridge and Malling, 7 November 2022
49 m awayRef 2022461245182
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Bora
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 2014460245294 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 2014.