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Serious A292 crash in Ashford on 17 December 1982 at 19:25 involving a bicycle

A bicycle hit a pedestrian on the A292 in Ashford at 19:25 on Friday 17 December 1982. A 47-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured and the 18-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on an icy one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
17 Dec 1982
Friday, 19:25
Vehicles
1
Bicycle
Casualties
2
1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.15185, longitude 0.87267, in the TN24 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ashford.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1982467108252
Council area
Ashford
Police force
Kent

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
292
Road type
One way street or slip road
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
A
Second road number
28

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Frost or ice

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 October 1989.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Bicycle

    Pedal cycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    18 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Cyclist

    Slight

    Male, aged 18, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)

  • Casualty 2: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 47, hit by vehicle 1 (Bicycle)

    Pedestrian location
    Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

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 1982467108252 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Ashford road accident statistics for 1982.