Unclassified road crash in Ashford TN27 on 15 August 2012 at 05:50 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Skoda Fabia were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Ashford at 05:50 on Wednesday 15 August 2012. The 24-year-old male driver of the Skoda Fabia was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Aug 2012
- Wednesday, 05:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Skoda Fabia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.20552, longitude 0.77439, in the TN27 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ashford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012460217211
- Council area
- Ashford
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 May 1981.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Ashford, 26 May 1981
10 m awayRef 1981467102911
Serious
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Ashford, 30 March 1983
10 m awayRef 1983467101463
Slight
Citroen Visa crash on an unclassified road in Ashford, 10 December 1990
228 m awayRef 199046DA23690
Slight
Ford crash on an unclassified road in Ashford, 22 November 1996
269 m awayRef 199646WL29057
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Ashford, 30 March 1983
415 m awayRef 1983467101553
Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on an unclassified road in Ashford, 5 October 2000
422 m awayRef 200046WL30415
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Skoda Fabia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Skoda Fabia)
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 2012460217211 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 2012.