Serious C road crash in Ashford TN25 on 31 January 2013 at 17:20 involving an Audi A6
An Audi A6 crashed on a C road in Ashford at 17:20 on Thursday 31 January 2013. The 44-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 Jan 2013
- Thursday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A6
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.20989, longitude 0.90539, in the TN25 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ashford
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013460223864
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 148 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 March 2025.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Ashford, 27 March 2025
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Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Ashford, 14 December 2018
211 m awayRef 2018460353909
Slight
Peugeot Boxer crash on a C road in Ashford, 24 November 2000
297 m awayRef 200046WL32623
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in Ashford, 5 December 1995
311 m awayRef 199546WL23955
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Ashford, 29 October 1981
442 m awayRef 1981467106841
Slight
Mercedes crash on a C road in Ashford, 15 December 1990
442 m awayRef 199046DA24150
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A6
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,967 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A6)
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 2013460223864 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 2013.