Serious unclassified road crash in Thanet CT9 on 26 April 1985 at 08:45 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Thanet at 08:45 on Friday 26 April 1985. A 10-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Apr 1985
- Friday, 08:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.38305, longitude 1.40748, in the CT9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Margate.
Map of where the crash happened in Thanet
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985465403025
- Council area
- Thanet
- Police force
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 October 1981.
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Thanet, 29 October 1981
At the same spotRef 1981465108911
Serious
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63 m awayRef 199946TH00935
Slight
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Slight
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96 m awayRef 2025461568972
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on a C road in Thanet, 31 January 2007
100 m awayRef 2007460137279
Slight
Honda crash on a C road in Thanet, 1 November 1990
100 m awayRef 199046ED24010
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- 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 1985465403025 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Thanet road accident statistics for 1985.