A262 crash in Ashford on 28 June 2006 at 19:13 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A262 in Ashford at 19:13 on Wednesday 28 June 2006. The 25-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus and the 20-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Jun 2006
- Wednesday, 19:13
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.09973, longitude 0.66677, in the TN30 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ashford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006460127734
- 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
- 262
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 34 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 October 2023.
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover Sport crash on the A262 in Ashford, 12 October 2023
34 m awayRef 2023461364933
Slight
Volvo crash on the A262 in Ashford, 13 July 1998
54 m awayRef 199846WL05562
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A262 in Ashford, 2 July 1992
54 m awayRef 1992461007323
Slight
Car crash on the A28 in Ashford, 12 December 1987
71 m awayRef 1987464112227
Fatal
Car crash on the A262 in Ashford, 27 November 1987
71 m awayRef 1987464111537
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Tunbridge Wells, 27 July 1985
95 m awayRef 1985461307635
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 2006460127734 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 2006.