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A254 crash in Thanet on 3 September 1998 at 15:00 involving a Nissan Bluebird

A Nissan Bluebird hit a pedestrian on the A254 in Thanet at 15:00 on Thursday 3 September 1998. An 89-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
3 Sep 1998
Thursday, 15:00
Vehicles
1
Nissan Bluebird
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.35189, longitude 1.40258, in the CT12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ramsgate.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199846TH06523
Council area
Thanet
Police force
Kent
Highway authority
Kent

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
254
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
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
Central refuge, no other controls

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 October 1996.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Nissan Bluebird

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Reversing
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South East
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    84 years
    Engine capacity
    1,796 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    10 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 89, hit by vehicle 1 (Nissan Bluebird)

    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 199846TH06523 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 1998.