Unclassified road crash in Thanet CT8 on 10 April 2008 at 00:40 involving a Peugeot 206
A car, a Peugeot 206 and a Mini Cooper were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Thanet at 00:40 on Thursday 10 April 2008. All five casualties were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Apr 2008
- Thursday, 00:40
- Vehicles
- 3
- Peugeot 206 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 5
- 5 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.38164, longitude 1.32621, in the CT8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Margate. It is one of the crashes that make up the Westgate-on-Sea, Thanet, CT8 8LP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008460155952
- Council area
- Thanet
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 42%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 58%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 May 2001.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Thanet, 30 May 2001
At the same spotRef 200146TH41150
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Thanet, 5 December 2012
10 m awayRef 2012460221749
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Thanet, 21 December 2015
22 m awayRef 2015460266197
Slight
Kia Rio crash on an unclassified road in Thanet, 13 September 2010
45 m awayRef 2010460190899
Serious
Toyota Celica crash on an unclassified road in Thanet, 16 March 1992
110 m awayRef 1992460700406
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on an unclassified road in Thanet, 10 August 2002
110 m awayRef 200246TH62591
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 3: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (5)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 14, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 5: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2008460155952 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 2008.