{"id":551831,"date":"2026-04-26T15:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T15:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/551831\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T15:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T15:26:10","slug":"motorcyclist-17-dies-in-head-on-crash-with-van-in-tonge-near-sittingbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/551831\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist, 17, dies in head-on crash with van in Tonge, near Sittingbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A teenage motorcyclist has died in a head-on crash with a van in a village.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to Lower Road in Tonge, near Sittingbourne, just before 5pm yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 1414 951\" alt=\"The incident happened on Lower Road in Tonge, near Sittingbourne. Picture: Google\" data-root=\"\/_media\/img\/\" data-path=\"BX499W7EHZCCHJYYSYDY.jpg\" data-ar=\"1.49\"\/>The incident happened on Lower Road in Tonge, near Sittingbourne. Picture: Google<\/p>\n<p>Officers say a 17-year-old boy from the area &#8211; who was riding a black KTM Duke motorcycle &#8211; died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>He had collided with a blue VW Transporter van which was travelling in the opposite direction towards Sittingbourne.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who saw the collision, or who might have seen the vehicles beforehand, is urged to contact police.<\/p>\n<p>Dashcam footage can be uploaded to the public portal link <a href=\"https:\/\/kep.uk.evidence.com\/axon\/community-request\/public\/rtc_lower_road_tonge_25_april_26\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses should call 01622 798538 or email sciu.td@kent.pnn.police.uk using the reference HW\/DH\/034\/26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenage motorcyclist has died in a head-on crash with a van in a village. Police were called&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[648,59,57,58,191,50,190,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-551831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-faversham","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-greatbritain","12":"tag-kent","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-sittingbourne","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}