Unclassified road crash in Dover CT16 on 11 July 2012 at 12:04 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a DAF Trucks lorry were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Dover at 12:04 on Wednesday 11 July 2012. The 37-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus 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
- 11 Jul 2012
- Wednesday, 12:04
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and DAF Trucks
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.15297, longitude 1.30458, in the CT16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Whitfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whitfield, Dover, CT16 3EH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dover
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012460215947
- Council area
- Dover
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: DAF Trucks
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 2012460215947 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.