A20 crash in Dover on 9 October 2013 at 05:00 involving a BMW 3 Series
A lorry and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on the A20 in Dover at 05:00 on Wednesday 9 October 2013. The 60-year-old male driver of the BMW 3 Series was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Oct 2013
- Wednesday, 05:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.11229, longitude 1.21507, in the CT18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dover
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013460233151
- Council area
- Dover
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 20
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 January 2003.
Slight
Car crash on the A20 in Dover, 5 January 2003
10 m awayRef 200346SK69709
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A20 in Dover, 21 November 1993
30 m awayRef 1993460814074
Slight
Proton Proton crash on the A20 in Dover, 18 August 1995
61 m awayRef 199546SK22319
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dover, 9 December 1987
70 m awayRef 1987464211997
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A20 in Dover, 20 November 1997
71 m awayRef 199746SK01633
Slight
HGV crash on the A20 in Dover, 17 April 2003
81 m awayRef 200346SK75211
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- Yes
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,171 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 3 Series)
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 2013460233151 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 2013.