Unclassified road crash in Tonbridge and Malling ME6 on 18 May 2025 at 15:15 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Tonbridge and Malling at 15:15 on Sunday 18 May 2025. The 9-year-old male cyclist 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
- 18 May 2025
- Sunday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.33171, longitude 0.43441, in the ME6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Snodland. It is one of the crashes that make up the Snodland East & Ham Hill, Tonbridge and Malling, ME6 5NT 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
- 2025461593355
- Council area
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 December 2006.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Tonbridge and Malling, 1 December 2006
3 m awayRef 2006460134629
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Tonbridge and Malling, 27 May 1981
11 m awayRef 1981461203431
Serious
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in Tonbridge and Malling, 14 June 1994
11 m awayRef 1994461314930
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Tonbridge and Malling, 25 June 1986
11 m awayRef 1986461206696
Serious
BMW X5 crash on an unclassified road in Tonbridge and Malling, 20 June 2014
83 m awayRef 2014460243590
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Tonbridge and Malling, 21 October 1987
130 m awayRef 1987461211897
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
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
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,084 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 9, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least 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 2025461593355 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.