A21 crash in Tonbridge and Malling on 10 March 2016 at 10:30 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on the A21 in Tonbridge and Malling at 10:30 on Thursday 10 March 2016. The 51-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Mar 2016
- Thursday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.18209, longitude 0.26153, in the TN9 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Vauxhall, Tonbridge and Malling, TN9 2QZ 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
- 2016460051457
- Council area
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 21
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 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, 47 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 December 2016.
Slight
Suzuki Alto crash on the A21 in Tonbridge and Malling, 15 December 2016
47 m awayRef 2016460139000
Slight
Car crash on the A26 in Tonbridge and Malling, 26 February 1989
47 m awayRef 198946AB02009
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A26 in Tonbridge and Malling, 10 November 2009
52 m awayRef 2009460179171
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A21 in Tonbridge and Malling, 21 March 2005
54 m awayRef 2005460107837
Slight
Volkswagen Tiguan crash on the A21 in Tonbridge and Malling, 23 April 2018
59 m awayRef 2018460289419
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A26 in Tonbridge and Malling, 7 June 2023
59 m awayRef 2023461319265
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
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 2016460051457 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 2016.