Serious B2054 crash in Thanet on 15 November 2008 at 17:10 involving a Smart Forfour
A Smart Forfour and a Peugeot 107 were involved in a crash on the B2054 in Thanet at 17:10 on Saturday 15 November 2008. The 54-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 107 was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Nov 2008
- Saturday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Smart Forfour and Peugeot 107
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.32967, longitude 1.40673, in the CT11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ramsgate. It is one of the crashes that make up the Nethercourt, Thanet, CT11 0AZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Thanet
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008460165083
- Council area
- Thanet
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2054
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 September 2023.
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B2054 in Thanet, 15 September 2023
14 m awayRef 2023461355248
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the B2054 in Thanet, 13 May 1991
14 m awayRef 199146EC08291
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Thanet, 29 April 1983
36 m awayRef 1983465303093
Slight
Bus crash on the B2054 in Thanet, 30 September 1985
36 m awayRef 1985465308925
Slight
Saab 9-3 crash on the B2054 in Thanet, 13 October 2012
36 m awayRef 2012460219519
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B2054 in Thanet, 16 August 1989
36 m awayRef 198946EE15699
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Smart Forfour
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 107
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 107)
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 2008460165083 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.