A25 crash in Sevenoaks on 8 July 2015 at 06:10 involving a Ford Transit Custom van
Four vehicles, including a Ford Transit Custom van and a Volkswagen Golf, were involved in a crash on the A25 in Sevenoaks at 06:10 on Wednesday 8 July 2015. The 40-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Jul 2015
- Wednesday, 06:10
- Vehicles
- 4
- Ford Transit Custom and 3 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.27516, longitude 0.10292, in the TN16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brasted. It is one of the crashes that make up the Brasted, Chevening and Sundridge, Sevenoaks, TN16 1LL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sevenoaks
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015460258724
- Council area
- Sevenoaks
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 September 1995.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A25 in Sevenoaks, 26 September 1995
10 m awayRef 199546WK19759
Serious
Car crash on the A25 in Sevenoaks, 3 June 2002
20 m awayRef 200246WK66851
Serious
Land Rover Range Rover crash on the A25 in Sevenoaks, 2 August 2000
20 m awayRef 200046WK17173
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A25 in Sevenoaks, 18 May 2000
20 m awayRef 200046WK24224
Serious
Datsun Micra crash on the A25 in Sevenoaks, 22 September 1993
20 m awayRef 1993461212100
Serious
Car crash on the A25 in Sevenoaks, 14 April 1991
20 m awayRef 199146CC98241
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit Custom
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 3: Audi TT
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 3,189 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 4: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 2015460258724 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 2015.