Serious A259 crash in Folkestone and Hythe on 2 September 1987 at 11:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A259 in Folkestone and Hythe at 11:30 on Wednesday 2 September 1987. A 4-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Sep 1987
- Wednesday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.0229, longitude 0.99304, in the TN29 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Folkestone and Hythe
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1987464308227
- Council area
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Police force
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 259
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 August 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Folkestone and Hythe, 1 August 1983
At the same spotRef 1983467204753
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Folkestone and Hythe, 14 December 1979
At the same spotRef 1979467207219
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A259 in Folkestone and Hythe, 14 October 1982
At the same spotRef 1982467206832
Slight
BMW R Series crash on the A259 in Folkestone and Hythe, 8 June 2024
21 m awayRef 2024461453256
Slight
Austin Mini crash on the A259 in Folkestone and Hythe, 6 April 2003
28 m awayRef 200346SK74551
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A259 in Folkestone and Hythe, 23 April 2017
33 m awayRef 2017460178718
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 4, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 1987464308227 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Folkestone and Hythe road accident statistics for 1987.