Serious unclassified road crash in Ashford TN23 on 23 April 2009 at 16:15 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Ashford at 16:15 on Thursday 23 April 2009. An 18-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Apr 2009
- Thursday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.1485, longitude 0.87107, in the TN23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ashford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Victoria, Ashford, TN23 1QG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Ashford
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009460171309
- Council area
- Ashford
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 July 2014.
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Ashford, 28 July 2014
14 m awayRef 2014460245092
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Ashford, 21 November 2005
20 m awayRef 2005460118414
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Ashford, 9 March 1994
20 m awayRef 1994461015576
Slight
Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in Ashford, 29 July 1997
20 m awayRef 199746WL32601
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Ashford, 18 April 2006
20 m awayRef 2006460124751
Serious
Leyland National crash on an unclassified road in Ashford, 15 January 2002
22 m awayRef 200246WL52506
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 18, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 2009460171309 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 2009.