B2085 crash in Tunbridge Wells on 25 October 2015 at 09:50 involving a car
A car crashed on the B2085 in Tunbridge Wells at 09:50 on Sunday 25 October 2015. The 66-year-old male driver 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
- 25 Oct 2015
- Sunday, 09:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.09118, longitude 0.50771, in the TN17 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cranbrook, Sissinghurst & Frittenden, Tunbridge Wells, TN17 3QS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tunbridge Wells
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015460263222
- Council area
- Tunbridge Wells
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2085
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 March 1993.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B2085 in Tunbridge Wells, 26 March 1993
28 m awayRef 1993461110363
Slight
Van crash on the B2085 in Tunbridge Wells, 21 February 2014
50 m awayRef 2014460238463
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B2085 in Tunbridge Wells, 28 August 2006
72 m awayRef 2006460130860
Serious
Car crash on the B2085 in Tunbridge Wells, 26 March 1979
81 m awayRef 1979464101519
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B2085 in Tunbridge Wells, 19 March 1981
150 m awayRef 1981464101551
Slight
Car crash on the B2085 in Tunbridge Wells, 16 November 1989
150 m awayRef 198946AC12669
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 66, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2015460263222 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tunbridge Wells road accident statistics for 2015.