Serious A257 crash in Dover on 16 June 2005 at 16:00 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A257 in Dover at 16:00 on Thursday 16 June 2005. The male driver of the Ford Fiesta was seriously injured and the 20-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Jun 2005
- Thursday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.28408, longitude 1.28013, in the CT3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dover
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005460111613
- Council area
- Dover
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 257
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 August 1999.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A257 in Dover, 24 August 1999
10 m awayRef 199946SK05448
Slight
Suzuki Jimny crash on the A257 in Dover, 16 October 2014
10 m awayRef 2014460248185
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A257 in Dover, 7 June 2000
10 m awayRef 200046SK24491
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A257 in Dover, 22 March 2024
11 m awayRef 2024461423810
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on an unclassified road in Dover, 4 February 2025
13 m awayRef 2025461550674
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A257 in Dover, 13 August 2012
20 m awayRef 2012460217249
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,391 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- Engine capacity
- 1,119 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousMale, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2005460111613 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Dover road accident statistics for 2005.