C road crash in Ashford TN27 on 13 August 2008 at 17:15 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on a C road in Ashford at 17:15 on Wednesday 13 August 2008. A 65-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Aug 2008
- Wednesday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.10486, longitude 0.64292, in the TN27 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Biddenden, Ashford, TN27 8DD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Ashford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008460161126
- Council area
- Ashford
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 March 2000.
Slight
Leyland DAF FTG 95XF crash on a C road in Ashford, 31 March 2000
10 m awayRef 200046WL16171
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on a C road in Ashford, 14 July 1993
20 m awayRef 1993461012472
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A262 in Ashford, 3 April 1982
28 m awayRef 1982467101972
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on a C road in Ashford, 5 November 2013
51 m awayRef 2013460234190
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A262 in Ashford, 29 September 1996
57 m awayRef 199646WL28191
Slight
Land Rover 90 crash on the A262 in Ashford, 31 July 1997
72 m awayRef 199746WL32765
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 65, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, facing traffic
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 2008460161126 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.