Unclassified road crash in Thanet CT10 on 21 August 2000 at 21:05 involving a Nissan Micra
A Nissan Micra and a Ford Orion were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Thanet at 21:05 on Monday 21 August 2000. The 23-year-old male driver of the Ford Orion was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Aug 2000
- Monday, 21:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Micra and Ford Orion
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.38269, longitude 1.4272, in the CT10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Margate.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200046TH28077
- Council area
- Thanet
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
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The nearest, 55 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 January 2022.
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Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Thanet, 18 November 2002
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Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Thanet, 28 June 1995
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Serious
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Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Thanet, 4 June 1980
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Orion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Orion)
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 200046TH28077 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 2000.