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Serious A255 crash in Thanet on 8 December 1997 at 07:30 involving a Hyundai Pony

A Hyundai Pony hit a pedestrian on the A255 in Thanet at 07:30 on Monday 8 December 1997. A 42-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Serious
Date
8 Dec 1997
Monday, 07:30
Vehicles
1
Hyundai Pony
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.36082, longitude 1.42953, in the CT10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Broadstairs.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199746TH01875
Council area
Thanet
Police force
Kent
Highway authority
Kent

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
255
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
B
Second road number
2053

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 December 2000.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Hyundai Pony

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    53 years
    Engine capacity
    1,468 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    9 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 42, hit by vehicle 1 (Hyundai Pony)

    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 199746TH01875 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Thanet road accident statistics for 1997.