A258 crash in Dover on 31 May 2009 at 13:30 involving a Citroen Berlingo
A Citroen Berlingo, a Peugeot 206 and a Ford S-Max were involved in a crash on the A258 in Dover at 13:30 on Sunday 31 May 2009. A 46-year-old female passenger in the Peugeot 206 and a 7-year-old female passenger in the Ford S-Max were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 May 2009
- Sunday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- Citroen Berlingo and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.26057, longitude 1.33538, in the CT14 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Eastry Rural, Dover, CT14 0BJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dover
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009460173093
- Council area
- Dover
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 258
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 October 2013.
Slight
Mazda crash on the A258 in Dover, 30 October 2013
20 m awayRef 2013460233862
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A258 in Dover, 9 December 2008
32 m awayRef 2008460166147
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A258 in Dover, 7 November 1980
40 m awayRef 1980465209020
Slight
Car crash on the A256 in Dover, 9 July 1980
40 m awayRef 1980465305180
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A258 in Dover, 8 April 2008
100 m awayRef 2008460155575
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A258 in Dover, 30 June 2003
102 m awayRef 200346SK79001
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Berlingo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 71 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,868 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 3: Ford S-Max
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 206)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 7, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Ford S-Max)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 2009460173093 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.