Serious B2023 crash in Tunbridge Wells on 6 October 2020 at 17:00 involving an Audi A3
An Audi A3 and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B2023 in Tunbridge Wells at 17:00 on Tuesday 6 October 2020. The 36-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Oct 2020
- Tuesday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A3 and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.13066, longitude 0.27198, 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.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020461008719
- Council area
- Tunbridge Wells
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2023
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 December 2000.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B2023 in Tunbridge Wells, 20 December 2000
7 m awayRef 200046WK35338
Slight
Volvo 245 crash on the B2023 in Tunbridge Wells, 23 March 1995
35 m awayRef 1995461118062
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B2023 in Tunbridge Wells, 9 March 1985
43 m awayRef 1985461301885
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B2023 in Tunbridge Wells, 26 March 2024
65 m awayRef 2024461445503
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Tunbridge Wells, 30 July 1984
71 m awayRef 1984464104494
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Tunbridge Wells, 15 December 2007
74 m awayRef 2007460151040
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 36, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most 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 2020461008719 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 2020.