A254 crash in Thanet on 28 November 2007 at 17:32 involving a Suzuki Wagon R+
A Suzuki Wagon R+ and a Hyundai Lantra were involved in a crash on the A254 in Thanet at 17:32 on Wednesday 28 November 2007. The 45-year-old female driver of the Suzuki Wagon R+ was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Nov 2007
- Wednesday, 17:32
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki Wagon R+ and Hyundai Lantra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.3768, longitude 1.38536, in the CT9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Margate. It is one of the crashes that make up the Salmestone, Thanet, CT9 4BB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Thanet
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007460150585
- Council area
- Thanet
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 254
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 February 2016.
Slight
Renault Kangoo crash on the A254 in Thanet, 14 February 2016
8 m awayRef 2016460045096
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on the A254 in Thanet, 24 November 2004
10 m awayRef 200446TH02819
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A254 in Thanet, 14 June 1993
10 m awayRef 1993460712070
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A254 in Thanet, 24 September 2002
10 m awayRef 200246TH64569
Serious
MG Metro crash on the A254 in Thanet, 4 January 1997
10 m awayRef 199746TH29755
Slight
Mitsubishi Carisma crash on the A254 in Thanet, 15 February 2005
10 m awayRef 2005460106669
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Wagon R+
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,328 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Hyundai Lantra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki Wagon R+)
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 2007460150585 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Thanet road accident statistics for 2007.