A255 crash in Thanet on 5 July 2009 at 16:08 involving a Honda CBF1000A motorcycle
A Honda CBF1000A motorcycle, a Toyota RAV4 and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on the A255 in Thanet at 16:08 on Sunday 5 July 2009. The 41-year-old male rider of the Honda CBF1000A motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jul 2009
- Sunday, 16:08
- Vehicles
- 3
- Honda CBF1000A and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.36076, longitude 1.42958, in the CT10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Broadstairs. It is one of the crashes that make up the Viking, Thanet, CT10 1NN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Thanet
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009460174077
- Council area
- Thanet
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 255
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 December 2000.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A255 in Thanet, 2 December 2000
At the same spotRef 200046TH32937
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A255 in Thanet, 17 June 1992
At the same spotRef 1992460707229
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A255 in Thanet, 23 June 1994
At the same spotRef 1994460717523
Slight
Volkswagen Lupo crash on the A255 in Thanet, 5 April 2002
At the same spotRef 200246TH60630
Slight
Car crash on the A255 in Thanet, 17 July 2007
At the same spotRef 2007460144206
Serious
Hyundai Pony crash on the A255 in Thanet, 8 December 1997
At the same spotRef 199746TH01875
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Honda CBF1000A
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota RAV4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 41, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda CBF1000A)
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 2009460174077 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 2009.