C road crash in Thanet CT8 on 19 December 2008 at 21:00 involving a Peugeot 206
A Peugeot 206 and a bicycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Thanet at 21:00 on Friday 19 December 2008. The 17-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 2008
- Friday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 206 and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.38327, longitude 1.34157, in the CT8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Margate. It is one of the crashes that make up the Westbrook, Thanet, CT8 8DH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Thanet
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008460166774
- Council area
- Thanet
- 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
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 July 1991.
Slight
Citroen BX crash on a C road in Thanet, 2 July 1991
At the same spotRef 199146ED11661
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on a C road in Thanet, 25 July 1996
At the same spotRef 199646TH27192
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Thanet, 18 October 1994
At the same spotRef 1994460718525
Serious
Saab 900 crash on a C road in Thanet, 2 February 2000
10 m awayRef 200046TH12420
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in Thanet, 27 July 2005
10 m awayRef 2005460113335
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on a C road in Thanet, 31 December 1990
22 m awayRef 199046ED28360
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 17, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 2008460166774 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.