A28 crash in Ashford on 18 May 2005 at 11:09 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a car were involved in a crash on the A28 in Ashford at 11:09 on Wednesday 18 May 2005. A 97-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 May 2005
- Wednesday, 11:09
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.07929, longitude 0.69529, in the TN30 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tenterden. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tenterden St Michael's, Ashford, TN30 6DE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005460110253
- Council area
- Ashford
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 28
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 July 2008.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A28 in Ashford, 20 July 2008
At the same spotRef 2008460160163
Slight
Suzuki Ignis crash on the A28 in Ashford, 20 April 2001
At the same spotRef 200146WL39963
Serious
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A28 in Ashford, 18 November 2025
4 m awayRef 2025461670833
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A28 in Ashford, 27 November 1998
10 m awayRef 199846WL08145
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A28 in Ashford, 4 June 1998
10 m awayRef 199846WL05061
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A28 in Ashford, 18 February 2010
10 m awayRef 2010460183571
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 97, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- 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 2005460110253 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 2005.