Serious C road crash in Tonbridge and Malling ME20 on 4 October 2015 at 06:59 involving a Qingqi QM 125 GY motorcycle
A Qingqi QM 125 GY motorcycle crashed on a C road in Tonbridge and Malling at 06:59 on Sunday 4 October 2015. The 26-year-old male rider was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Oct 2015
- Sunday, 06:59
- Vehicles
- 1
- Qingqi QM 125 GY
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.30835, longitude 0.44507, in the ME20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Larkfield.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015460262187
- Council area
- Tonbridge and Malling
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 March 1996.
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on a C road in Tonbridge and Malling, 1 March 1996
10 m awayRef 199646MA21515
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on a C road in Tonbridge and Malling, 31 July 2009
10 m awayRef 2009460175284
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Tonbridge and Malling, 7 August 1991
10 m awayRef 199146AB45881
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on an unclassified road in Tonbridge and Malling, 16 February 2005
10 m awayRef 2005460106779
Slight
Leyland DAF 200 crash on a C road in Tonbridge and Malling, 15 October 1996
10 m awayRef 199646MA23832
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on a C road in Tonbridge and Malling, 7 September 2011
10 m awayRef 2011460204470
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Qingqi QM 125 GY
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 26, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Qingqi QM 125 GY)
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 2015460262187 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 2015.