A260 crash in Folkestone and Hythe on 21 October 2012 at 16:00 involving a Honda Pes 125 motorcycle
A car and a Honda Pes 125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A260 in Folkestone and Hythe at 16:00 on Sunday 21 October 2012. The 19-year-old female rider of the Honda Pes 125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Oct 2012
- Sunday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Honda Pes 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.0807, longitude 1.18603, in the CT20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Folkestone. It is one of the crashes that make up the Folkestone Central, Folkestone and Hythe, CT20 1EN area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012460220144
- Council area
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 260
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Stop sign
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 April 2002.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A260 in Folkestone and Hythe, 27 April 2002
At the same spotRef 200246SK56982
Slight
Dennis crash on the A260 in Folkestone and Hythe, 20 May 2009
At the same spotRef 2009460172467
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the A260 in Folkestone and Hythe, 4 May 2014
At the same spotRef 2014460241367
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the A260 in Folkestone and Hythe, 27 November 2000
10 m awayRef 200046SK33304
Slight
Volkswagen crash on an unclassified road in Folkestone and Hythe, 10 May 1997
10 m awayRef 199746SK31982
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Folkestone and Hythe, 28 October 1996
10 m awayRef 199646SK28605
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Honda Pes 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 19, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Honda Pes 125)
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 2012460220144 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Folkestone and Hythe road accident statistics for 2012.