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Serious A256 crash in Dover on 8 August 1993 at 22:53 involving a Talbot Horizon

A Talbot Horizon crashed on the A256 in Dover at 22:53 on Sunday 8 August 1993. The 31-year-old male driver was seriously injured.

It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
8 Aug 1993
Sunday, 22:53
Vehicles
1
Talbot Horizon
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.19072, longitude 1.28848, in the CT15 postcode district.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1993460812732
Council area
Dover
Police force
Kent

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
256
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 unlit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 October 1997.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Talbot Horizon

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside and rebounded
    Hit object off carriageway
    Tree
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    31 years
    Engine capacity
    1,442 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    10 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Male, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Talbot Horizon)

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 1993460812732 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 1993.