A26 crash in Tonbridge and Malling on 28 July 2022 at 17:25 involving a car
A car crashed on the A26 in Tonbridge and Malling at 17:25 on Thursday 28 July 2022. The 23-year-old male driver 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
- 28 Jul 2022
- Thursday, 17:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.22312, longitude 0.33322, in the TN11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hadlow. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bourne, Tonbridge and Malling, TN11 0DX 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
- 2022461204804
- Council area
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 March 2025.
Slight
Car crash on the A26 in Tonbridge and Malling, 19 March 2025
11 m awayRef 2025461567482
Serious
Honda VFR750F crash on the A26 in Tonbridge and Malling, 8 March 2000
24 m awayRef 200046WK15540
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A26 in Tonbridge and Malling, 22 September 1987
28 m awayRef 1987461210477
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A26 in Tonbridge and Malling, 26 November 1985
28 m awayRef 1985461213235
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A26 in Tonbridge and Malling, 27 April 1984
28 m awayRef 1984461302874
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A26 in Tonbridge and Malling, 17 May 1992
44 m awayRef 1992461207138
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 2022461204804 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 2022.