C road crash in Dover CT3 on 13 May 2012 at 08:10 involving a Mercedes ML Class
A Mercedes ML Class and a Fiat Punto were involved in a crash on a C road in Dover at 08:10 on Sunday 13 May 2012. The 18-year-old male driver of the Fiat Punto 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
- 13 May 2012
- Sunday, 08:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes ML Class and Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.27814, longitude 1.27068, in the CT3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ash.
Map of where the crash happened in Dover
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012460213858
- Council area
- Dover
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 November 1986.
Serious
Car crash on the A257 in Dover, 25 November 1986
10 m awayRef 1986465310676
Serious
Daihatsu Cuore crash on the A257 in Dover, 21 August 1998
10 m awayRef 199846SK06529
Slight
Car crash on the A257 in Dover, 29 March 1985
10 m awayRef 1985465302195
Slight
Lorry crash on the A257 in Dover, 7 December 1989
10 m awayRef 198946EC24609
Slight
Renault Megane crash on a C road in Dover, 21 November 2009
22 m awayRef 2009460179652
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on a C road in Dover, 27 June 2009
41 m awayRef 2009460173905
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes ML Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,987 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,368 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat Punto)
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 2012460213858 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 2012.