A228 crash in Tonbridge and Malling on 15 August 2024 at 08:45 involving a Mercedes A Class
A Mercedes A Class, a Chevrolet Captiva and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A228 in Tonbridge and Malling at 08:45 on Thursday 15 August 2024. The 37-year-old female driver of the Chevrolet Captiva was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Aug 2024
- Thursday, 08:45
- Vehicles
- 3
- Mercedes A Class and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.3083, longitude 0.42397, in the ME19 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Larkfield, Tonbridge and Malling, ME20 6HG area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024461487975
- 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
- 228
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 August 2008.
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the A228 in Tonbridge and Malling, 6 August 2008
5 m awayRef 2008460161394
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A228 in Tonbridge and Malling, 29 December 2008
18 m awayRef 2008460167606
Serious
Yamaha MT crash on the M20 in Tonbridge and Malling, 9 July 2023
23 m awayRef 2023461331721
Slight
Peugeot 107 crash on the M20 in Tonbridge and Malling, 13 September 2017
24 m awayRef 2017460224606
Slight
Audi S3 crash on the M20 in Tonbridge and Malling, 20 August 2025
27 m awayRef 2025461631477
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the M20 in Tonbridge and Malling, 3 October 2020
27 m awayRef 2020460987979
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Chevrolet Captiva
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,991 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Chevrolet Captiva)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2024461487975 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 2024.