B2075 crash in Folkestone and Hythe on 21 October 2004 at 18:36 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the B2075 in Folkestone and Hythe at 18:36 on Thursday 21 October 2004. The 48-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, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Oct 2004
- Thursday, 18:36
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.95147, longitude 0.90576, in the TN29 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lydd. It is one of the crashes that make up the Walland & Denge Marsh, Folkestone and Hythe, TN29 9DR area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200446WL01101
- Council area
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2075
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 December 2023.
Serious
Royal Enfield Himalayan crash on the B2075 in Folkestone and Hythe, 17 December 2023
5 m awayRef 2023461390762
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B2075 in Folkestone and Hythe, 6 December 2017
9 m awayRef 2017460249495
Slight
Car crash on the B2075 in Folkestone and Hythe, 25 May 1985
22 m awayRef 1985464303825
Slight
Bus crash on the B2075 in Folkestone and Hythe, 21 November 1988
22 m awayRef 198846DC24398
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B2075 in Folkestone and Hythe, 26 September 1981
22 m awayRef 1981467205971
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B2075 in Folkestone and Hythe, 2 January 1991
22 m awayRef 199146DC25461
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 48, 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 200446WL01101 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Folkestone and Hythe road accident statistics for 2004.