A256 crash in Dover on 6 December 2014 at 10:25 involving a Citroen Xsara
A Citroen Xsara, a Ford Transit van and a Chevrolet Tacuma were involved in a crash on the A256 in Dover at 10:25 on Saturday 6 December 2014. The 30-year-old female driver of the Citroen Xsara was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet one-way street with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Dec 2014
- Saturday, 10:25
- Vehicles
- 3
- Citroen Xsara and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.13666, longitude 1.29598, in the CT17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dover. It is one of the crashes that make up the Buckland, Dover, CT16 2AD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dover
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014460250398
- 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
- 256
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 May 2016.
Slight
Car crash on the A256 in Dover, 20 May 2016
9 m awayRef 2016460070544
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the A256 in Dover, 1 September 1997
10 m awayRef 199746SK00496
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A256 in Dover, 12 February 2008
10 m awayRef 2008460153210
Serious
Ford Transit Connect crash on the A256 in Dover, 28 June 2025
12 m awayRef 2025461671512
Slight
Kawasaki KH125 crash on the A256 in Dover, 26 July 1997
14 m awayRef 199746SK00527
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A256 in Dover, 13 October 2011
14 m awayRef 2011460205900
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Xsara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 3: Chevrolet Tacuma
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Xsara)
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 2014460250398 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.