Unclassified road crash in Tunbridge Wells TN12 on 12 December 2025 at 19:00 involving a Honda Jazz
A Honda Jazz and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Tunbridge Wells at 19:00 on Friday 12 December 2025. The 56-year-old female driver of the Honda Jazz was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2025
- Friday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Jazz and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.1822, longitude 0.38308, in the TN12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Paddock Wood. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pembury & Capel, Tunbridge Wells, TN12 6SQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tunbridge Wells
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025461683069
- Council area
- Tunbridge Wells
- 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
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 33 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 July 1994.
Slight
Kawasaki AR50 crash on an unclassified road in Tunbridge Wells, 29 July 1994
33 m awayRef 1994461115541
Slight
Car crash on the B2160 in Tunbridge Wells, 27 March 1982
153 m awayRef 1982464101742
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B2160 in Tunbridge Wells, 1 February 1990
154 m awayRef 199046AC01310
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B2160 in Tunbridge Wells, 4 April 1990
154 m awayRef 199046AC03790
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Tunbridge Wells, 8 October 1990
154 m awayRef 199046AC22630
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Tunbridge Wells, 5 May 1986
161 m awayRef 1986461304636
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Jazz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,318 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Jazz)
- 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 2025461683069 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.