B2060 crash in Dover on 23 January 2009 at 17:42 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Citroen Saxo were involved in a crash on the B2060 in Dover at 17:42 on Friday 23 January 2009. The 20-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta, the 26-year-old female driver of the Citroen Saxo and a 26-year-old male passenger in the Citroen Saxo were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jan 2009
- Friday, 17:42
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Citroen Saxo
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.14385, longitude 1.2513, in the CT15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dover
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009460168076
- Council area
- Dover
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2060
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 September 2023.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Dover, 17 September 2023
16 m awayRef 2023461356966
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the B2060 in Dover, 8 June 1996
22 m awayRef 199646SK26513
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Dover, 11 October 2013
36 m awayRef 2013460233620
Serious
Citroen C1 crash on an unclassified road in Dover, 8 August 2021
39 m awayRef 2021461074840
Serious
Car crash on the B2060 in Dover, 26 May 1985
81 m awayRef 1985464203765
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the B2060 in Dover, 10 April 1996
92 m awayRef 199646SK25888
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen Saxo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Any animal (except ridden horse)
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen Saxo)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen Saxo)
- 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 2009460168076 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Dover road accident statistics for 2009.