C road crash in Tunbridge Wells TN12 on 23 October 2016 at 11:30 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Tunbridge Wells at 11:30 on Sunday 23 October 2016. The 13-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Oct 2016
- Sunday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.14842, longitude 0.39966, in the TN12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Tunbridge Wells
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016460122581
- Council area
- Tunbridge Wells
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 August 2016.
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BMW R 80 RT T crash on a C road in Tunbridge Wells, 6 July 1994
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Vauxhall Vectra crash on a C road in Tunbridge Wells, 4 May 2004
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Vauxhall Vivaro crash on a C road in Tunbridge Wells, 6 October 2014
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 13, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2016460122581 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 2016.