Serious C road crash in Thanet CT12 on 15 December 2013 at 04:15 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on a C road in Thanet at 04:15 on Sunday 15 December 2013. The 26-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Dec 2013
- Sunday, 04:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.35128, longitude 1.35317, in the CT12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Thanet
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013460235801
- Council area
- Thanet
- 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
- 30 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, street lights unlit
- 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, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 July 1982.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B2190 in Thanet, 27 July 1982
20 m awayRef 1982465305742
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Thanet, 18 March 2025
150 m awayRef 2025461566248
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B2190 in Thanet, 24 September 1987
206 m awayRef 1987465306937
Slight
Renault crash on the B2050 in Thanet, 28 December 2011
261 m awayRef 2011460208773
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B2050 in Thanet, 20 March 2020
263 m awayRef 2020460943782
Slight
Mercedes ML Class crash on a C road in Thanet, 8 November 2008
273 m awayRef 2008460164487
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2013460235801 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Thanet road accident statistics for 2013.