A20 crash in Folkestone and Hythe on 16 November 1995 at 15:50 involving a Ford Granada
A Ford Granada hit a pedestrian on the A20 in Folkestone and Hythe at 15:50 on Thursday 16 November 1995. A 13-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Nov 1995
- Thursday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Granada
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.10512, longitude 0.99978, in the TN25 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199546SK23738
- Council area
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Police force
- Kent
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 20
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 20
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 February 2007.
Slight
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Slight
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Slight
Car crash on the A20 in Folkestone and Hythe, 15 January 2006
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Serious
Car crash on the A20 in Folkestone and Hythe, 13 November 1979
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Serious
Car crash on the A20 in Folkestone and Hythe, 25 February 1988
100 m awayRef 198846DC01648
Serious
Bristol (BLMC) crash on the A20 in Folkestone and Hythe, 28 November 1995
104 m awayRef 199546SK23883
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Granada
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Granada)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 199546SK23738 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Folkestone and Hythe road accident statistics for 1995.