Serious unclassified road crash in Ashford TN24 on 4 July 1998 at 01:35 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Ashford at 01:35 on Saturday 4 July 1998. A 31-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Jul 1998
- Saturday, 01:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.17113, longitude 0.87873, in the TN24 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ashford.
Map of where the crash happened in Ashford
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199846WL05424
- Council area
- Ashford
- Police force
- Kent
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 3 December 2003.
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Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Ashford, 11 June 1985
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 31, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
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 199846WL05424 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 1998.