Serious unclassified road crash in Sevenoaks DA4 on 12 January 2025 at 20:01 involving a DS DS3
A DS DS3 and a Toyota Prius were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sevenoaks at 20:01 on Sunday 12 January 2025. The 30-year-old male driver of the DS DS3 was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Jan 2025
- Sunday, 20:01
- Vehicles
- 2
- DS DS3 and Toyota Prius
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39733, longitude 0.27407, in the DA4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Sevenoaks
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025461540678
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Moderately 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, 31 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 March 1988.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sevenoaks, 14 March 1988
31 m awayRef 198846CB02018
Slight
Smart Forfour crash on an unclassified road in Sevenoaks, 28 September 2025
130 m awayRef 2025461652133
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Sevenoaks, 5 September 2024
137 m awayRef 2024461487383
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on an unclassified road in Sevenoaks, 25 March 1998
290 m awayRef 199846NK13027
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in Sevenoaks, 31 December 2017
310 m awayRef 2017460259244
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in Sevenoaks, 21 July 1997
332 m awayRef 199746NK09424
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: DS DS3
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
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Vehicle 2: Toyota Prius
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,797 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (DS DS3)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 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 2025461540678 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 2025.