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A254 crash in Thanet on 28 December 1987 at 14:00 involving a car

A vehicle and a car were involved in a crash on the A254 in Thanet at 14:00 on Monday 28 December 1987. The 32-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and a 35-year-old male passenger in vehicle 1 were slightly 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
Slight
Date
28 Dec 1987
Monday, 14:00
Vehicles
2
Other vehicle and car
Casualties
2
2 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.37743, longitude 1.38406, 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
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1987465409427
Council area
Thanet
Police force
Kent

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
254
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 serious injury crash on 4 November 1982.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Other vehicle

    Manoeuvre
    Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Lamp post
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    32 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Waiting to turn right
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North East
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    17 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 32, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Slight

    Male, aged 35, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)

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 1987465409427 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 1987.