A255 crash in Thanet on 12 April 2015 at 06:00 involving a Toyota Supra
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Apr 2015
- Sunday, 06:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Supra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.34102, longitude 1.42662, in the CT11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ramsgate. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sir Moses Montefiore, Thanet, CT11 7EG area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015460255362
- Council area
- Thanet
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 255
- 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
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 June 1992.
Slight
Honda crash on the A255 in Thanet, 19 June 1992
10 m awayRef 1992460707162
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A255 in Thanet, 23 October 1999
10 m awayRef 199946TH08140
Serious
Derbi Senda crash on the A255 in Thanet, 29 October 2010
10 m awayRef 2010460192713
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A255 in Thanet, 2 April 1991
10 m awayRef 199146EC05811
Slight
Jaguar X Type crash on the A255 in Thanet, 25 December 2009
14 m awayRef 2009460181190
Slight
Bus crash on the A255 in Thanet, 12 June 2005
22 m awayRef 2005460111718
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Supra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,954 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Supra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2015460255362 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 2015.