A20 crash in Folkestone and Hythe on 28 July 2005 at 20:10 involving a Ford Escort van
A Ford Escort van crashed on the A20 in Folkestone and Hythe at 20:10 on Thursday 28 July 2005. The 27-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Jul 2005
- Thursday, 20:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.08549, longitude 1.03654, in the CT21 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the North Downs West, Folkestone and Hythe, CT21 4HR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Folkestone and Hythe
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005460113439
- Council area
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 20
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 261
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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 April 1996.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A20 in Folkestone and Hythe, 28 April 1996
At the same spotRef 199646SK26011
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the A261 in Folkestone and Hythe, 3 July 2005
At the same spotRef 2005460112275
Slight
Volkswagen Tiguan crash on the A20 in Folkestone and Hythe, 12 November 2021
2 m awayRef 2021461110902
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A20 in Folkestone and Hythe, 5 September 2005
10 m awayRef 2005460114971
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A20 in Folkestone and Hythe, 10 May 1999
10 m awayRef 199946WL00845
Slight
Qingqi QM 125 GY crash on the A20 in Folkestone and Hythe, 24 March 2014
10 m awayRef 2014460239999
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, 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 2005460113439 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 2005.