B2049 crash in Thanet on 20 November 2002 at 17:45 involving a Ford
A Ford and a Honda motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B2049 in Thanet at 17:45 on Wednesday 20 November 2002. The 65-year-old male rider of the Honda motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Nov 2002
- Wednesday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford and Honda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.36232, longitude 1.32237, in the CT7 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Thanet Villages, Thanet, CT7 0HS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Thanet
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200246TH67329
- Council area
- Thanet
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2049
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 2049
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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 29 June 2014.
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Vauxhall Astra crash on the B2049 in Thanet, 1 December 2009
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Ford Sierra crash on the B2049 in Thanet, 5 March 1992
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Ford Mondeo crash on the B2050 in Thanet, 14 July 2018
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Austin Metro crash on the B2049 in Thanet, 4 September 2004
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Engine capacity
- 1,679 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Honda
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,520 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 65, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 2 (Honda)
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 200246TH67329 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 2002.