Unclassified road crash in Ashford TN26 on 18 May 2003 at 08:30 involving a Rover Metro
A Rover Metro crashed on an unclassified road in Ashford at 08:30 on Sunday 18 May 2003. The 20-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 May 2003
- Sunday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover Metro
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.13008, longitude 0.76586, in the TN26 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ashford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200346WL76348
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 100 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 21 October 1999.
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Ashford, 21 October 1999
100 m awayRef 199946WL07918
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Ashford, 21 March 1990
128 m awayRef 199046DA02230
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Ashford, 22 February 1993
191 m awayRef 1993461010614
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Ashford, 8 March 2022
300 m awayRef 2022461153326
Slight
Volkswagen Jetta crash on an unclassified road in Ashford, 20 May 1999
327 m awayRef 199946WL01249
Slight
Peugeot Partner crash on an unclassified road in Ashford, 8 January 2019
330 m awayRef 2019460356252
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover Metro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,120 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover Metro)
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 200346WL76348 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 2003.