Unclassified road crash in Ashford TN24 on 31 December 2005 at 14:39 involving an Audi A3
An Audi A3 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Ashford at 14:39 on Saturday 31 December 2005. A 13-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2005
- Saturday, 14:39
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.1349, longitude 0.87538, in the TN24 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ashford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Norman, Ashford, TN23 6LN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Ashford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005460120143
- Council area
- Ashford
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 2042
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 February 2013.
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Audi A3)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
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 2005460120143 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.