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A28 crash in Ashford on 27 December 1995 at 09:00 involving a Mercedes 300 van

A Mercedes 300 van crashed on the A28 in Ashford at 09:00 on Wednesday 27 December 1995. The 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
27 Dec 1995
Wednesday, 09:00
Vehicles
1
Mercedes 300
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.24457, longitude 0.97403, in the CT4 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Ashford

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199546WL24302
Council area
Ashford
Police force
Kent
Highway authority
Kent

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
28
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
A
Second road number
28

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Frost or ice

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 October 1995.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Mercedes 300

    Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Road sign or traffic signal
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    25 years
    Engine capacity
    2,299 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    3 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 25, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes 300)

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 199546WL24302 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 1995.