A20 crash in Folkestone and Hythe on 3 February 2007 at 07:40 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
Two Vauxhall Corsas were involved in a crash on the A20 in Folkestone and Hythe at 07:40 on Saturday 3 February 2007. The 50-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Feb 2007
- Saturday, 07:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.10515, longitude 0.99983, in the TN25 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Folkestone and Hythe
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007460137408
- 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
- 40 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 November 1995.
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the A20 in Folkestone and Hythe, 16 November 1995
10 m awayRef 199546SK23738
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A20 in Folkestone and Hythe, 1 October 2025
24 m awayRef 2025461648910
Slight
Car crash on the A20 in Folkestone and Hythe, 15 January 2006
32 m awayRef 2006460120698
Serious
Car crash on the A20 in Folkestone and Hythe, 13 November 1979
70 m awayRef 1979467206359
Serious
Car crash on the A20 in Folkestone and Hythe, 25 February 1988
90 m awayRef 198846DC01648
Serious
Bristol (BLMC) crash on the A20 in Folkestone and Hythe, 28 November 1995
102 m awayRef 199546SK23883
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 78 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 2007460137408 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 2007.