Serious unclassified road crash in Thanet CT11 on 23 November 2000 at 01:50 involving a Renault Megane
A Renault Megane crashed on an unclassified road in Thanet at 01:50 on Thursday 23 November 2000. The 24-year-old male driver was seriously injured and a 25-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Nov 2000
- Thursday, 01:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Megane
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.33198, longitude 1.38622, in the CT11 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200046TH32463
- Council area
- Thanet
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 63 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 November 1982.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Thanet, 15 November 1982
63 m awayRef 1982465309292
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Thanet, 1 November 2000
149 m awayRef 200046TH31656
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Thanet, 21 October 1979
228 m awayRef 1979465308479
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Thanet, 21 November 1985
272 m awayRef 1985465310835
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Thanet, 11 February 1986
272 m awayRef 1986465301326
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Thanet, 5 June 1989
272 m awayRef 198946EC10969
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Megane)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Megane)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200046TH32463 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.