A26 crash in Tunbridge Wells on 9 January 2018 at 09:28 involving a Honda Accord
A motorcycle and a Honda Accord were involved in a crash on the A26 in Tunbridge Wells at 09:28 on Tuesday 9 January 2018. The 20-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Jan 2018
- Tuesday, 09:28
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Honda Accord
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.13888, longitude 0.26157, in the TN4 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
- 2018460259369
- Council area
- Tunbridge Wells
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 26
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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, 9 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 30 May 2019.
Serious
Honda HR-V crash on the A26 in Tunbridge Wells, 30 May 2019
9 m awayRef 2019460852350
Slight
Optare crash on the A26 in Tunbridge Wells, 19 October 2016
9 m awayRef 2016460119600
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the A26 in Tunbridge Wells, 17 March 2011
11 m awayRef 2011460198124
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A26 in Tunbridge Wells, 29 November 2004
12 m awayRef 200446WK04397
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A26 in Tunbridge Wells, 17 July 1999
12 m awayRef 199946WK04893
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A26 in Tunbridge Wells, 22 October 2023
15 m awayRef 2023461367550
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 50 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Honda Accord
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- 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 2018460259369 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 2018.