Serious B2011 crash in Dover on 27 March 2014 at 23:10 involving an Audi A4
A car, an Audi A4 and three MG TF cars were involved in a crash on the B2011 in Dover at 23:10 on Thursday 27 March 2014. The 51-year-old male driver of the car and the 32-year-old male driver of the Audi A4 were seriously injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Mar 2014
- Thursday, 23:10
- Vehicles
- 5
- Audi A4 and 4 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.11401, longitude 1.26649, in the CT15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dover
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014460239795
- Council area
- Dover
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2011
- 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, 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, 42 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 March 1993.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A20 in Dover, 16 March 1993
42 m awayRef 1993460810923
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A20 in Dover, 29 September 1984
54 m awayRef 1984465207544
Slight
Car crash on the A20 in Dover, 16 October 1989
54 m awayRef 198946DB23449
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the B2011 in Dover, 1 September 2006
86 m awayRef 2006460130382
Slight
Car crash on the A20 in Dover, 16 October 1994
92 m awayRef 1994460818424
Slight
Car crash on the A20 in Dover, 7 June 1988
94 m awayRef 198846DB11338
Vehicles involved (5)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Vehicle 2: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 3: MG TF
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 4: MG TF
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 5: MG TF
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi A4)
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 2014460239795 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 2014.