A28 crash in Ashford on 8 May 1997 at 12:50 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306 and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on the A28 in Ashford at 12:50 on Thursday 8 May 1997. The 32-year-old female driver of the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 May 1997
- Thursday, 12:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 306 and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.07739, longitude 0.69486, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199746WL31969
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights unlit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 25 February 2000.
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the A28 in Ashford, 25 February 2000
At the same spotRef 200046WL12830
Slight
Volkswagen crash on the A28 in Ashford, 21 March 1997
10 m awayRef 199746WL30855
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A28 in Ashford, 1 April 2004
22 m awayRef 200446WL91720
Slight
Hyundai i10 crash on the A28 in Ashford, 27 August 2019
30 m awayRef 2019460875591
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35 m awayRef 2025461583114
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on the A28 in Ashford, 30 January 2015
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
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 199746WL31969 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 1997.