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Unclassified road crash in Folkestone and Hythe CT21 on 10 February 2010 at 17:30 involving a Seat Leon

A Seat Leon crashed on an unclassified road in Folkestone and Hythe at 17:30 on Wednesday 10 February 2010. The 39-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in snow on a single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Slight
Date
10 Feb 2010
Wednesday, 17:30
Vehicles
1
Seat Leon
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.07368, longitude 1.08903, in the CT21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hythe. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hythe, Folkestone and Hythe, CT21 5AT area accident hotspot.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
2010460183009
Council area
Folkestone and Hythe
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
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
Junction control
Stop sign
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Snowing, no high winds
Road surface
Snow

Enhanced collision data

How severity was recorded
Judged by the reporting police officer
Estimated chance it was serious
1%
Estimated chance it was slight
99%

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 February 1998.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Seat Leon

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Slowing or stopping
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    Position at junction
    Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
    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
    39 years
    Engine capacity
    1,781 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    9 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Leon)

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 2010460183009 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 2010.