C road crash in Ashford TN27 on 15 December 2012 at 17:30 involving a Seat Ibiza
A Seat Ibiza and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on a C road in Ashford at 17:30 on Saturday 15 December 2012. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Dec 2012
- Saturday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Seat Ibiza and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.14846, longitude 0.66357, 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
- 2012460222574
- Council area
- Ashford
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 May 2014.
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Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Ashford, 30 August 2004
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Serious
Car crash on a C road in Ashford, 30 December 1998
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Serious
Honda Accord crash on an unclassified road in Ashford, 29 November 2016
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Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Ashford, 1 February 2020
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 11, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 13, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Ibiza)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2012460222574 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.