Unclassified road crash in Thanet CT9 on 13 December 2002 at 18:00 involving a Skoda Fabia
A Skoda Fabia and a Peugeot 106 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Thanet at 18:00 on Friday 13 December 2002. A 56-year-old female passenger in the Peugeot 106 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
- 13 Dec 2002
- Friday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Skoda Fabia and Peugeot 106
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.36075, longitude 1.3928, in the CT9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Broadstairs. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Peters, Thanet, CT10 2NT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Thanet
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200246TH68962
- 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
- 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 serious injury crash on 9 August 1995.
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Fabia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 81 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 106
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 106)
- 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 200246TH68962 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.