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B2057 crash in Dover on 13 January 1979 at 09:00 involving a car

A car crashed on the B2057 in Dover at 09:00 on Saturday 13 January 1979. A 60-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on an icy single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
13 Jan 1979
Saturday, 09:00
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.19973, longitude 1.40108, in the CT14 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Dover

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1979465200259
Council area
Dover
Police force
Kent

Road and location details

First road class
B
First road number
2057
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
40 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Raining with high winds
Road surface
Frost or ice

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 80 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 March 2013.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside and rebounded
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    30 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

    Car passenger
    Front seat passenger

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 1979465200259 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Dover road accident statistics for 1979.