Unclassified road crash in Sevenoaks BR8 on 12 June 2020 at 17:00 involving a BMW 2 Series
A BMW 2 Series and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sevenoaks at 17:00 on Friday 12 June 2020. The 22-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jun 2020
- Friday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 2 Series and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40526, longitude 0.15831, in the BR8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swanley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Swanley St Mary's, Sevenoaks, BR8 7QE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020460957993
- Council area
- Sevenoaks
- 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
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 2173
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
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 4 June 2021.
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the B2173 in Sevenoaks, 4 June 2021
1 m awayRef 2021461057256
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B2173 in Sevenoaks, 22 November 2016
3 m awayRef 2016460133888
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B2173 in Sevenoaks, 1 October 2016
3 m awayRef 2016460113382
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the B2173 in Sevenoaks, 12 December 2018
4 m awayRef 2018460353979
Slight
Vauxhall Chevette crash on the B2173 in Bexley, 17 January 1992
4 m awayRef 199201PN00027
Slight
Car crash on the B2173 in Bexley, 17 October 1986
4 m awayRef 198601PN00559
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 2 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 108 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 22, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (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 2020460957993 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Sevenoaks road accident statistics for 2020.