A259 crash in Folkestone and Hythe on 12 March 2011 at 18:37 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on the A259 in Folkestone and Hythe at 18:37 on Saturday 12 March 2011. A 12-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Mar 2011
- Saturday, 18:37
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.0892, longitude 1.18104, in the CT19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Folkestone. It is one of the crashes that make up the East Folkestone, Folkestone and Hythe, CT19 5SP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011460197955
- Council area
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 259
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 October 2018.
Slight
Audi A1 crash on the A259 in Folkestone and Hythe, 9 October 2018
4 m awayRef 2018460335776
Slight
Chrysler Sebring crash on the A260 in Folkestone and Hythe, 29 May 2010
10 m awayRef 2010460186849
Slight
Volvo crash on the A259 in Folkestone and Hythe, 12 July 2006
10 m awayRef 2006460129240
Slight
HGV crash on an unclassified road in Folkestone and Hythe, 14 November 2005
10 m awayRef 2005460118154
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A259 in Folkestone and Hythe, 29 September 2001
10 m awayRef 200146SK46946
Slight
Seat Alhambra crash on the A259 in Folkestone and Hythe, 9 April 2022
11 m awayRef 2022461168278
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- 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 2011460197955 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 2011.