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Serious unclassified road crash in Dover CT15 on 1 September 1982 at 17:25 involving a car

Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Dover at 17:25 on Wednesday 1 September 1982. An 18-year-old male passenger in vehicle 1 was seriously injured and the 17-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 48-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
1 Sep 1982
Wednesday, 17:25
Vehicles
2
Car and another
Casualties
3
1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.21767, longitude 1.24485, in the CT15 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Dover

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1982465206972
Council area
Dover
Police force
Kent

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
50 mph

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

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, 108 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 August 2014.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    17 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    48 years

Casualties (3)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Serious

    Male, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

    Car passenger
    Front seat passenger

  • Casualty 3: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)

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 1982465206972 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 1982.