A25 crash in Tonbridge and Malling on 8 February 2017 at 19:10 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class and a Nissan Note were involved in a crash on the A25 in Tonbridge and Malling at 19:10 on Wednesday 8 February 2017. The 44-year-old female driver of the Nissan Note was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Feb 2017
- Wednesday, 19:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes C Class and Nissan Note
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.28586, longitude 0.28155, in the TN15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ightham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pilgrims with Ightham, Tonbridge and Malling, TN15 9HH 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
- 2017460155449
- 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
- 25
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 May 2009.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A25 in Tonbridge and Malling, 7 May 2009
2 m awayRef 2009460171819
Slight
Mazda 626 crash on the A25 in Tonbridge and Malling, 5 December 1997
2 m awayRef 199746WK28165
Serious
Volvo V40 crash on the A25 in Tonbridge and Malling, 27 March 2009
2 m awayRef 2009460170296
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the A25 in Tonbridge and Malling, 21 June 2008
2 m awayRef 2008460158715
Slight
Volkswagen Touran crash on the A25 in Tonbridge and Malling, 30 April 2010
2 m awayRef 2010460186045
Slight
Volvo XC60 crash on the A25 in Tonbridge and Malling, 21 July 2016
5 m awayRef 2016460089543
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Nissan Note
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Note)
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 2017460155449 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 2017.