A254 crash in Thanet on 14 December 1988 at 22:30 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A254 in Thanet at 22:30 on Wednesday 14 December 1988. The 21-year-old male rider of the motorcycle 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
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 1988
- Wednesday, 22:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.34984, longitude 1.40501, in the CT12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ramsgate.
Map of where the crash happened in Thanet
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198846EC24508
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 July 1984.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A254 in Thanet, 27 July 1984
At the same spotRef 1984465305874
Serious
Car crash on the A254 in Thanet, 27 February 1982
At the same spotRef 1982465301602
Slight
Car crash on the A254 in Thanet, 23 October 1979
At the same spotRef 1979465308579
Slight
Lorry crash on the A254 in Thanet, 26 August 1988
At the same spotRef 198846EC15698
Slight
Car crash on the A254 in Thanet, 28 January 1979
At the same spotRef 1979465300689
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Thanet, 27 January 1989
At the same spotRef 198946EC01759
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 198846EC24508 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 1988.