Serious unclassified road crash in Ashford on 31 December 1986 at 07:40 involving a car

A car crashed on an unclassified road in Ashford at 07:40 on Wednesday 31 December 1986. The 29-year-old male driver was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Serious
Date: 31 Dec 1986; Wednesday, 07:40
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1986464112606
Council area: Ashford
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: Fine, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
North East
Travelling to
South West
Leaving the carriageway
Offside
Hit object off carriageway
Tree
First point of impact
Nearside
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
29 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Serious
Male, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 1986464112606 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 1986.