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Serious A28 crash in Ashford on 28 September 1996 at 19:30 involving an Audi Cabriolet

An Audi Cabriolet hit a pedestrian on the A28 in Ashford at 19:30 on Saturday 28 September 1996. A 75-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
28 Sep 1996
Saturday, 19:30
Vehicles
1
Audi Cabriolet
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.07322, longitude 0.69234, in the TN30 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tenterden.

Map of where the crash happened in Ashford

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199646WL28189
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
30 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
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 September 2006.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Audi Cabriolet

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    38 years
    Engine capacity
    1,984 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    2 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 75, hit by vehicle 1 (Audi Cabriolet)

    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 199646WL28189 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 1996.