B2052 crash in Thanet on 4 April 1997 at 12:45 involving a Ford Fiesta
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Apr 1997
- Friday, 12:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.38797, longitude 1.3962, in the CT9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Margate.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199746TH31062
- Council area
- Thanet
- Police force
- Kent
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2052
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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 16 December 1995.
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the B2052 in Thanet, 16 December 1995
At the same spotRef 199546TH24125
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B2052 in Thanet, 15 January 1997
At the same spotRef 199746TH30024
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B2052 in Thanet, 9 February 1998
At the same spotRef 199846TH03653
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Thanet, 8 October 2025
8 m awayRef 2025461653601
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Thanet, 30 March 2024
9 m awayRef 2024461426449
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B2052 in Thanet, 26 April 2001
10 m awayRef 200146TH39725
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 199746TH31062 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.