A292 crash in Ashford on 22 January 2001 at 22:35 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A292 in Ashford at 22:35 on Monday 22 January 2001. The 53-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Jan 2001
- Monday, 22:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.14115, longitude 0.90265, in the TN24 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ashford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Highfield, Ashford, TN24 0UX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200146WL35485
- Council area
- Ashford
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 292
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 October 2009.
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A292 in Ashford, 16 October 2009
At the same spotRef 2009460178154
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Honda crash on the A292 in Ashford, 15 December 1997
At the same spotRef 199746WL02331
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A292 in Ashford, 3 October 2025
10 m awayRef 2025461652156
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A292 in Ashford, 4 April 2001
10 m awayRef 200146WL38706
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Kia Ceed crash on the A292 in Ashford, 10 December 2023
19 m awayRef 2023461387344
Slight
Car crash on the A292 in Ashford, 4 June 1997
20 m awayRef 199746WL31999
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 53, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 200146WL35485 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 2001.