Serious unclassified road crash in Thanet CT12 on 25 May 1986 at 02:45 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Thanet at 02:45 on Sunday 25 May 1986. The 55-year-old male driver was seriously injured and a 54-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 May 1986
- Sunday, 02:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.34544, longitude 1.40181, in the CT12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ramsgate.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1986465304526
- 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
- Crossroads
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 October 2011.
Slight
Mitsubishi Shogun crash on an unclassified road in Thanet, 18 October 2011
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Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Thanet, 4 July 2002
22 m awayRef 200246TH60558
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Thanet, 21 August 2009
22 m awayRef 2009460176022
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Thanet, 5 November 1996
80 m awayRef 199646TH28905
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Thanet, 26 July 2025
90 m awayRef 2025461624802
Slight
Vauxhall Tigra crash on an unclassified road in Thanet, 31 January 2014
91 m awayRef 2014460237769
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 54, 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 1986465304526 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 1986.