A262 crash in Ashford on 2 July 1992 at 00:10 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier crashed on the A262 in Ashford at 00:10 on Thursday 2 July 1992. A 21-year-old female passenger and a 21-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Jul 1992
- Thursday, 00:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.0996, longitude 0.66744, in the TN30 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1992461007323
- Council area
- Ashford
- Police force
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 262
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 51 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 July 2014.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A262 in Ashford, 31 July 2014
51 m awayRef 2014460245009
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A262 in Ashford, 28 June 2006
54 m awayRef 2006460127734
Serious
Car crash on the A262 in Ashford, 1 November 1986
64 m awayRef 1986464110186
Serious
Car crash on the A262 in Ashford, 27 March 1982
64 m awayRef 1982467101702
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Tunbridge Wells, 27 July 1985
64 m awayRef 1985461307635
Slight
Car crash on the A28 in Ashford, 12 December 1987
78 m awayRef 1987464112227
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 1992461007323 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Ashford road accident statistics for 1992.