Unclassified road crash in Dover CT15 on 20 March 1989 at 15:10 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Dover at 15:10 on Monday 20 March 1989. A 3-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Mar 1989
- Monday, 15:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.15111, longitude 1.37176, in the CT15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dover
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198946DB06369
- Council area
- Dover
- Police force
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 71 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 3, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 198946DB06369 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Dover road accident statistics for 1989.