Unclassified road crash in Tunbridge Wells TN2 on 26 April 2017 at 16:07 involving a Honda CBF125M motorcycle
A Honda CBF125M motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Tunbridge Wells at 16:07 on Wednesday 26 April 2017. The 26-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Apr 2017
- Wednesday, 16:07
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda CBF125M
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.13005, longitude 0.27132, in the TN2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Royal Tunbridge Wells. It is one of the crashes that make up the Park, Tunbridge Wells, TN1 1JN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tunbridge Wells
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017460177348
- Council area
- Tunbridge Wells
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 June 1992.
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the B2023 in Tunbridge Wells, 5 June 1992
19 m awayRef 1992461107347
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B2023 in Tunbridge Wells, 19 August 1999
19 m awayRef 199946WK06188
Slight
Car crash on the B2023 in Tunbridge Wells, 4 October 1986
23 m awayRef 1986461311056
Slight
Car crash on the B2023 in Tunbridge Wells, 29 June 1989
23 m awayRef 198946AC06409
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Tunbridge Wells, 15 March 2006
38 m awayRef 2006460123590
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Tunbridge Wells, 15 December 2007
48 m awayRef 2007460151040
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda CBF125M
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 26, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda CBF125M)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2017460177348 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 2017.