A2070 crash in Ashford on 11 October 1996 at 03:42 involving a car
A vehicle and a car were involved in a crash on the A2070 in Ashford at 03:42 on Friday 11 October 1996. The 44-year-old male driver of the car and a 30-year-old male passenger in the car were slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Oct 1996
- Friday, 03:42
- Vehicles
- 2
- Other vehicle and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.12681, longitude 0.85954, in the TN23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ashford.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199646WL28348
- Council area
- Ashford
- Police force
- Kent
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2070
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 July 1998.
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A2070 in Ashford, 1 July 1998
10 m awayRef 199846WL05407
Serious
Citroen Xsara crash on an unclassified road in Ashford, 30 April 2008
10 m awayRef 2008460156637
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the A2070 in Ashford, 21 September 1998
14 m awayRef 199846WL06914
Serious
Rover Maestro crash on the A2070 in Ashford, 19 May 2000
14 m awayRef 200046WL23193
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on an unclassified road in Ashford, 12 May 2023
15 m awayRef 2023461308205
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Ashford, 24 August 2001
22 m awayRef 200146WL45313
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 199646WL28348 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.