B2065 crash in Folkestone and Hythe on 24 November 2009 at 21:15 involving a Volkswagen Lupo
A Volkswagen Lupo crashed on the B2065 in Folkestone and Hythe at 21:15 on Tuesday 24 November 2009. The 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Nov 2009
- Tuesday, 21:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Lupo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.10513, longitude 1.09712, in the CT18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Folkestone and Hythe
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009460179690
- Council area
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2065
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
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The nearest, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 February 2023.
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Bicycle crash on the B2065 in Folkestone and Hythe, 15 July 1979
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Motorcycle crash on the B2065 in Folkestone and Hythe, 1 June 2003
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Datsun Sunny crash on the B2065 in Folkestone and Hythe, 6 July 1993
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Lupo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,422 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Lupo)
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 2009460179690 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Folkestone and Hythe road accident statistics for 2009.