Unclassified road crash in Ashford TN26 on 13 July 2002 at 00:08 involving a Ford Escort van
A Ford Escort van crashed on an unclassified road in Ashford at 00:08 on Saturday 13 July 2002. The 61-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Jul 2002
- Saturday, 00:08
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.05333, longitude 0.78954, in the TN26 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200246WL60592
- Council area
- Ashford
- 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
- 60 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 170 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 January 1988.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Ashford, 9 January 1988
170 m awayRef 198846DA00288
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Ashford, 6 May 1985
170 m awayRef 1985464103025
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Ashford, 13 May 1986
170 m awayRef 1986464104146
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Ashford, 4 November 1984
197 m awayRef 1984467107494
Slight
Ford Granada crash on an unclassified road in Ashford, 2 September 1993
221 m awayRef 1993461013077
Slight
Nissan Prairie crash on an unclassified road in Ashford, 25 July 1999
221 m awayRef 199946WL04109
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 61, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 200246WL60592 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 2002.