A28 crash in Ashford on 5 June 2008 at 17:40 involving a Mercedes C Class
A car and a Mercedes C Class were involved in a crash on the A28 in Ashford at 17:40 on Thursday 5 June 2008. The 20-year-old female driver of the car and the 39-year-old female driver of the Mercedes C Class were 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
- 5 Jun 2008
- Thursday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.24425, longitude 0.97362, in the CT4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chilham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Downs North, Ashford, CT4 8DU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Ashford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008460158143
- 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
- 28
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 252
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 November 2016.
Slight
Mercedes CLK Class crash on the A28 in Ashford, 18 November 2016
9 m awayRef 2016460132784
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A28 in Ashford, 9 July 2003
10 m awayRef 200346WL79157
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A252 in Ashford, 4 May 2006
10 m awayRef 2006460125400
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A28 in Ashford, 19 June 1998
14 m awayRef 199846WL05293
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A28 in Ashford, 1 November 2006
14 m awayRef 2006460133206
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A28 in Ashford, 31 May 2006
14 m awayRef 2006460126740
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,295 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes C Class)
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 2008460158143 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 2008.