A21 crash in Tonbridge and Malling on 23 December 2016 at 12:19 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the A21 in Tonbridge and Malling at 12:19 on Friday 23 December 2016. The 60-year-old male 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
- 23 Dec 2016
- Friday, 12:19
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.18409, longitude 0.2457, in the TN11 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Judd, Tonbridge and Malling, TN11 9BE 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
- 2016460141705
- 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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 September 1993.
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the A21 in Tonbridge and Malling, 13 September 1993
7 m awayRef 1993461212006
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A21 in Tonbridge and Malling, 1 January 2010
7 m awayRef 2010460181602
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A21 in Tonbridge and Malling, 1 October 2005
15 m awayRef 2005460116260
Slight
BMW 4 Series crash on the A21 in Tonbridge and Malling, 8 September 2022
22 m awayRef 2022461219783
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A21 in Tonbridge and Malling, 13 January 2025
25 m awayRef 2025461542003
Slight
Leyland DAF FTG 95 crash on the A21 in Tonbridge and Malling, 4 October 1992
30 m awayRef 1992461208522
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- 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
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2016460141705 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.