A260 crash in Dover on 17 January 2007 at 17:15 involving a Nissan Micra
A Nissan Micra and a Fiat Multipla were involved in a crash on the A260 in Dover at 17:15 on Wednesday 17 January 2007. The 80-year-old male driver of the Nissan Micra was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jan 2007
- Wednesday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Micra and Fiat Multipla
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.18862, longitude 1.18002, in the CT4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dover
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007460136552
- 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
- 260
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 April 2024.
Slight
Ford Transit Connect crash on the A260 in Dover, 9 April 2024
10 m awayRef 2024461429819
Serious
Audi A6 crash on the A260 in Dover, 6 May 2020
25 m awayRef 2020460950714
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A260 in Canterbury, 28 September 1997
32 m awayRef 199746CT00694
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the A260 in Canterbury, 5 April 1996
98 m awayRef 199646CT25647
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A260 in Dover, 5 March 2022
104 m awayRef 2022461162251
Serious
Car crash on the A260 in Canterbury, 9 April 1983
112 m awayRef 1983466102373
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 80 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,240 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat Multipla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 80, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Micra)
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 2007460136552 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 2007.