Serious A28 crash in Ashford on 10 August 2011 at 06:45 involving a Honda motorcycle
A Honda motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A28 in Ashford at 06:45 on Wednesday 10 August 2011. The 22-year-old male rider of the Honda motorcycle was seriously injured and the 55-year-old male driver of the car and a 50-year-old male passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Aug 2011
- Wednesday, 06:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda and car
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.13898, longitude 0.82616, in the TN23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ashford
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011460203379
- 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
- 28
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 November 2016.
Slight
Yamaha FZ8 crash on the A28 in Ashford, 11 November 2016
8 m awayRef 2016460127102
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A28 in Ashford, 24 September 2015
81 m awayRef 2015460261853
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A28 in Ashford, 14 March 2002
81 m awayRef 200246WL56069
Slight
Vauxhall Omega crash on the A28 in Ashford, 31 July 1999
114 m awayRef 199946WL04336
Slight
Car crash on the A28 in Ashford, 17 March 1982
150 m awayRef 1982467101462
Slight
Car crash on the A28 in Ashford, 8 November 1989
180 m awayRef 198946DA25899
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 22, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2011460203379 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 2011.