Unclassified road crash in Folkestone and Hythe TN29 on 22 September 1979 at 16:25 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Folkestone and Hythe at 16:25 on Saturday 22 September 1979. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Sep 1979
- Saturday, 16:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.02466, longitude 0.99458, in the TN29 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dymchurch.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979467205149
- Council area
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Police force
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 November 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Folkestone and Hythe, 9 November 1989
At the same spotRef 198946DC25839
Serious
Car crash on the A259 in Folkestone and Hythe, 17 November 1986
At the same spotRef 1986464310836
Slight
Vauxhall Senator crash on the A259 in Folkestone and Hythe, 1 February 2000
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Slight
Honda CG125B crash on the A259 in Folkestone and Hythe, 16 July 1991
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Slight
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Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A259 in Folkestone and Hythe, 12 October 1996
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 1979467205149 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Folkestone and Hythe road accident statistics for 1979.