A251 crash in Ashford on 16 June 2010 at 17:00 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series, a Nissan Almera and a Vauxhall Zafira were involved in a crash on the A251 in Ashford at 17:00 on Wednesday 16 June 2010. The 26-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Zafira was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jun 2010
- Wednesday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Rover 200 Series and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.16882, longitude 0.88593, in the TN24 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ashford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Goat Lees, Ashford, TN24 9PL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Ashford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010460187708
- Council area
- Ashford
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 251
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 April 1998.
Slight
Leyland DAF FA 45 crash on the A251 in Ashford, 22 April 1998
10 m awayRef 199846WL04189
Serious
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A2042 in Ashford, 16 July 2019
13 m awayRef 2019460860081
Slight
Hyundai Accent crash on the A251 in Ashford, 18 November 1999
32 m awayRef 199946WL09350
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover crash on the A251 in Ashford, 29 May 2008
41 m awayRef 2008460157771
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A251 in Ashford, 2 December 2016
49 m awayRef 2016460135780
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A251 in Ashford, 15 October 2001
51 m awayRef 200146WL48020
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Almera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Vauxhall Zafira)
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 2010460187708 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 2010.