A261 crash in Folkestone and Hythe on 6 December 2014 at 16:54 involving a Jaguar X Type
A Jaguar X Type crashed on the A261 in Folkestone and Hythe at 16:54 on Saturday 6 December 2014. The 82-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Dec 2014
- Saturday, 16:54
- Vehicles
- 1
- Jaguar X Type
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.08324, longitude 1.04011, in the CT21 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the North Downs West, Folkestone and Hythe, CT21 4HR area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014460250392
- Council area
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 261
- 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 54 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 June 1984.
Serious
Car crash on the A261 in Folkestone and Hythe, 19 June 1984
54 m awayRef 1984467203884
Slight
Subaru Impreza crash on the A261 in Folkestone and Hythe, 25 May 2003
117 m awayRef 200346SK76598
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A261 in Folkestone and Hythe, 30 March 2007
149 m awayRef 2007460139635
Slight
Alfa Romeo 146 crash on the A261 in Folkestone and Hythe, 25 December 2003
157 m awayRef 200346SK86919
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A261 in Folkestone and Hythe, 7 September 1994
184 m awayRef 1994460918065
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A261 in Folkestone and Hythe, 26 October 2006
219 m awayRef 2006460132928
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Jaguar X Type
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 82 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 82, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Jaguar X Type)
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 2014460250392 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Folkestone and Hythe road accident statistics for 2014.