A292 crash in Ashford on 11 October 2011 at 12:20 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Volkswagen Fox were involved in a crash on the A292 in Ashford at 12:20 on Tuesday 11 October 2011. The 18-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Fox was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Oct 2011
- Tuesday, 12:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Volkswagen Fox
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.14125, longitude 0.90237, in the TN24 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ashford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Highfield, Ashford, TN24 0UX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Ashford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011460205751
- 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
- 292
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 May 2006.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Ashford, 11 May 2006
At the same spotRef 2006460125855
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A20 in Ashford, 11 March 2005
At the same spotRef 2005460107583
Slight
MAN crash on the A292 in Ashford, 16 January 2014
At the same spotRef 2014460238854
Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on the A292 in Ashford, 17 December 2012
At the same spotRef 2012460222257
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A292 in Ashford, 11 August 2017
At the same spotRef 2017460220062
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A292 in Ashford, 16 January 2016
4 m awayRef 2016460039946
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Fox
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Fox)
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 2011460205751 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.