A26 crash in Tunbridge Wells on 7 June 2025 at 03:15 involving a Honda Jazz
A Honda Jazz crashed on the A26 in Tunbridge Wells at 03:15 on Saturday 7 June 2025. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Jun 2025
- Saturday, 03:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda Jazz
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.1268, longitude 0.25886, in the TN4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Royal Tunbridge Wells. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pantiles, Tunbridge Wells, TN2 5QY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025461599760
- Council area
- Tunbridge Wells
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 26
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 267
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 5 July 2017.
Slight
Mercedes CLK Class crash on the A26 in Tunbridge Wells, 5 July 2017
1 m awayRef 2017460205129
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A26 in Tunbridge Wells, 22 October 1999
4 m awayRef 199946WK07898
Slight
Rover 25 crash on the A26 in Tunbridge Wells, 7 January 2001
4 m awayRef 200146WK35207
Slight
Saab 900 crash on the A26 in Tunbridge Wells, 25 January 1996
4 m awayRef 199646WK21172
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A26 in Tunbridge Wells, 18 September 1998
4 m awayRef 199846WK31358
Slight
Car crash on the A26 in Tunbridge Wells, 8 July 1991
4 m awayRef 199146AC43371
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda Jazz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,339 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Jazz)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Jazz)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Jazz)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Jazz)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2025461599760 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tunbridge Wells road accident statistics for 2025.