Overview
- A yellow Mini Cooper struck a tree on the A20 at Barrow Hill, Sellindge at about 8.40pm on Sunday 5 July, leaving a 46-year-old female passenger dead at the scene and the 44-year-old female driver with life-threatening injuries.
- Emergency crews attended the scene and the driver was airlifted to a London hospital where she remains in a life-threatening condition.
- Officers from Kent Police’s Serious Collision Investigation Unit have opened an inquiry and are asking anyone who saw the collision or the moments before it to come forward.
- Police have given a reference number HW/AL/052/26 and asked witnesses to call the SCIU appeal line on 01622 798538 or email sciu.td@kent.police.uk and to upload dashcam footage via the force’s portal.
- Local people praised the rapid efforts of emergency responders and investigators say eyewitness accounts and footage could help establish speed, road conditions or other factors that led to the crash.