Unclassified road crash in Ashford TN23 on 21 February 2014 at 19:25 involving a Volkswagen Bora
A Volkswagen Bora crashed on an unclassified road in Ashford at 19:25 on Friday 21 February 2014. The 35-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Feb 2014
- Friday, 19:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Bora
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.141, longitude 0.83944, in the TN23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ashford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Beaver, Ashford, TN23 5DF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Ashford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014460238490
- Council area
- Ashford
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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, street lights lit
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 8 February 2006.
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Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Ashford, 12 April 2011
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Kia Sedona crash on an unclassified road in Ashford, 19 September 2012
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Peugeot 307 crash on an unclassified road in Ashford, 15 August 2003
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Serious
Optare crash on an unclassified road in Ashford, 25 July 2011
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Slight
Nissan X-Trail crash on an unclassified road in Ashford, 18 January 2007
At the same spotRef 2007460136583
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Bora
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Bora)
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 2014460238490 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 2014.