Unclassified road crash in Tonbridge and Malling ME18 on 12 March 2025 at 18:45 involving a Lexmoto LXR motorcycle
A Lexmoto LXR motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Tonbridge and Malling at 18:45 on Wednesday 12 March 2025. The 18-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Mar 2025
- Wednesday, 18:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lexmoto LXR
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.25861, longitude 0.42961, in the ME18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Tonbridge and Malling
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025461565207
- Council area
- Tonbridge and Malling
- 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
- 40 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
- 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, 38 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 April 2022.
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Mercedes GLC Class crash on an unclassified road in Tonbridge and Malling, 6 April 2022
38 m awayRef 2022461168116
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Tonbridge and Malling, 16 August 2001
79 m awayRef 200146MA45582
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Tonbridge and Malling, 9 August 2006
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Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Tonbridge and Malling, 18 May 1980
137 m awayRef 1980461203730
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Tonbridge and Malling, 18 November 1982
164 m awayRef 1982461209702
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Tonbridge and Malling, 22 May 1982
199 m awayRef 1982461203822
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lexmoto LXR
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Lexmoto LXR)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 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 2025461565207 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.