A20 crash in Tonbridge and Malling on 22 December 2016 at 16:10 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a car were involved in a crash on the A20 in Tonbridge and Malling at 16:10 on Thursday 22 December 2016. The 42-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2016
- Thursday, 16:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.29869, longitude 0.44424, in the ME20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Larkfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Larkfield, Tonbridge and Malling, ME20 6NF 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
- 2016460141324
- Council area
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 20
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 December 1997.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A20 in Tonbridge and Malling, 23 December 1997
4 m awayRef 199746MA28291
Slight
Kia Rio crash on the A20 in Tonbridge and Malling, 4 January 2005
4 m awayRef 2005460104749
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A20 in Tonbridge and Malling, 22 September 2018
23 m awayRef 2018460339226
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A20 in Tonbridge and Malling, 9 July 2004
24 m awayRef 200446MA96300
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A20 in Tonbridge and Malling, 23 January 1994
24 m awayRef 1994461313496
Serious
Toyota Corolla crash on the A20 in Tonbridge and Malling, 1 December 1991
24 m awayRef 199146AB55401
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most 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 2016460141324 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.