Serious C road crash in Dover CT13 on 15 November 2010 at 15:35 involving a Volvo XC90
A Volvo XC90 hit a pedestrian on a C road in Dover at 15:35 on Monday 15 November 2010. An 11-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Nov 2010
- Monday, 15:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo XC90
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.26731, longitude 1.33887, in the CT13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sandwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sandwich, Dover, CT13 9AS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dover
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010460193587
- Council area
- Dover
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 December 2003.
Slight
Citroen AX crash on a C road in Dover, 8 December 2003
10 m awayRef 200346SK86727
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in Dover, 8 July 2010
14 m awayRef 2010460188559
Slight
Vehicle crash on a C road in Dover, 16 November 2001
20 m awayRef 200146SK49606
Serious
Bristol (BLMC) crash on a C road in Dover, 18 October 1999
20 m awayRef 199946SK07753
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Dover, 18 June 2002
20 m awayRef 200246SK59697
Serious
Bristol (BLMC) crash on a C road in Dover, 7 October 1999
20 m awayRef 199946SK07335
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo XC90
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,401 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Volvo XC90)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2010460193587 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 2010.