A2014 crash in Tonbridge and Malling on 6 January 2025 at 16:01 involving a Kia Niro
A Kia Niro hit a pedestrian on the A2014 in Tonbridge and Malling at 16:01 on Monday 6 January 2025. A 15-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Jan 2025
- Monday, 16:01
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kia Niro
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.18599, longitude 0.27561, in the TN9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tonbridge. It is one of the crashes that make up the Vauxhall, Tonbridge and Malling, TN9 2EX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025461538280
- 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
- 2014
- 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
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 23 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 December 1999.
Slight
Car crash on the A2014 in Tonbridge and Malling, 5 December 1999
23 m awayRef 199946WK10181
Slight
Suzuki GSF 600 crash on the A2014 in Tonbridge and Malling, 11 October 2000
23 m awayRef 200046WK30588
Serious
Ford Granada crash on the A2014 in Tonbridge and Malling, 9 December 1992
41 m awayRef 1992461209300
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A2014 in Tonbridge and Malling, 26 August 2021
45 m awayRef 2021461125173
Serious
Car crash on the A2014 in Tonbridge and Malling, 26 August 1986
47 m awayRef 1986461209426
Slight
BMW X3 crash on the A2014 in Tonbridge and Malling, 16 July 2015
49 m awayRef 2015460258988
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kia Niro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,580 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Kia Niro)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 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 2025461538280 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 2025.