A253 crash in Thanet on 9 May 1997 at 21:30 involving a Peugeot 306
A car and a Peugeot 306 were involved in a crash on the A253 in Thanet at 21:30 on Friday 9 May 1997. The 39-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 306 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 May 1997
- Friday, 21:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.34265, longitude 1.32994, in the CT12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Minster.
Map of where the crash happened in Thanet
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199746TH31462
- Council area
- Thanet
- Police force
- Kent
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 253
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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 16 February 2002.
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BMW 5 Series crash on the A253 in Thanet, 16 February 2002
At the same spotRef 200246TH53991
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Rover 400 Series crash on the A299 in Thanet, 18 August 2009
At the same spotRef 2009460176011
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Vauxhall Astra crash on the A253 in Thanet, 8 August 2005
At the same spotRef 2005460113795
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Nissan Primera crash on the A299 in Thanet, 31 August 2005
10 m awayRef 2005460114835
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Citroen Saxo crash on the A253 in Thanet, 2 March 2007
10 m awayRef 2007460138420
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Vauxhall Astra crash on the A253 in Thanet, 7 June 1994
30 m awayRef 1994460716682
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 306)
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 199746TH31462 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.