A21 crash in Tonbridge and Malling on 25 December 2016 at 17:11 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on the A21 in Tonbridge and Malling at 17:11 on Sunday 25 December 2016. The 50-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Dec 2016
- Sunday, 17:11
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.23432, longitude 0.21399, in the TN11 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hildenborough, Tonbridge and Malling, TN11 8NN 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
- 2016460141551
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 23 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 February 1994.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Tonbridge and Malling, 28 February 1994
23 m awayRef 1994461213995
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A21 in Tonbridge and Malling, 11 February 1997
28 m awayRef 199746WK25138
Slight
Seat Leon crash on the A21 in Tonbridge and Malling, 18 December 2023
34 m awayRef 2023461398322
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A21 in Tonbridge and Malling, 21 June 2004
42 m awayRef 200446WK95270
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A21 in Tonbridge and Malling, 7 December 2014
49 m awayRef 2014460250783
Serious
Yamaha YZF R1 crash on the A21 in Tonbridge and Malling, 20 May 2001
51 m awayRef 200146WK41374
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- 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 2016460141551 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.