A 64-year-old man and a 60-year-old woman have died after a car crashed on a main road.
Police were called to the single-vehicle collision on the A228 Pembury Northern Bypass, near Tunbridge Wells Hospital, at around 11.43am yesterday (May 18).
Emergency services were called to the A228 Pembury Northern Bypass following the serious crash. Picture: KCC Highways
A silver Renault Megane travelling from Pembury towards Whetsted is believed to have left the carriageway and entered woodland before colliding with trees.
The incident happened between Tonbridge Road and Old Church Road.
Officers attended the scene alongside paramedics, where the driver, a 64-year-old man, had sustained fatal injuries and was declared deceased at the scene.
The passenger, a 60-year-old woman, was airlifted to a London hospital, where she later died.
Their next of kin is aware.
Officers from Kent Police’s Serious Collision Investigation Unit are carrying out inquiries and urge anyone who witnessed the incident, or saw the vehicles before the collision, to contact them.
CCTV and dashcam footage can be submitted here.
Anyone with information should call Kent Police on 01622 798538 or email sciu.td@kent.pnn.police.uk and quote reference HW/DGC/040/26.