Unclassified road crash in Folkestone and Hythe CT21 on 25 April 1981 at 18:10 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Folkestone and Hythe at 18:10 on Saturday 25 April 1981. A 20-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Apr 1981
- Saturday, 18:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.0582, longitude 1.01958, in the CT21 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Folkestone and Hythe
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981467202201
- Council area
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Police force
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 June 2003.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Folkestone and Hythe, 6 June 2003
20 m awayRef 200346SK77554
Slight
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100 m awayRef 1982467205582
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Folkestone and Hythe, 12 November 2022
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Serious
BMW X3 crash on an unclassified road in Folkestone and Hythe, 27 October 2025
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Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in Folkestone and Hythe, 7 September 2025
162 m awayRef 2025461638321
Slight
Audi A5 crash on an unclassified road in Folkestone and Hythe, 14 June 2021
180 m awayRef 2021461059149
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, 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 1981467202201 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 1981.