A28 crash in Ashford on 1 September 2016 at 16:27 involving a Jeep Cherokee
A Jeep Cherokee and a Mazda MX-5 were involved in a crash on the A28 in Ashford at 16:27 on Thursday 1 September 2016. The 61-year-old female driver of the Jeep Cherokee was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Sep 2016
- Thursday, 16:27
- Vehicles
- 2
- Jeep Cherokee and Mazda MX-5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.24527, longitude 0.97614, in the CT4 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Downs North, Ashford, CT4 8DU area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016460104012
- Council area
- Ashford
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 28
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 November 2001.
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A28 in Ashford, 10 November 2001
22 m awayRef 200146WL49138
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A28 in Ashford, 6 August 1984
22 m awayRef 1984467105164
Slight
Car crash on the A28 in Ashford, 4 May 1987
22 m awayRef 1987464103817
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A28 in Ashford, 28 May 2008
35 m awayRef 2008460157666
Slight
Honda CRV crash on the A28 in Ashford, 2 January 2021
37 m awayRef 2021461012167
Serious
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A28 in Ashford, 25 September 2007
41 m awayRef 2007460147006
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Jeep Cherokee
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,956 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Mazda MX-5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Jeep Cherokee)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
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 2016460104012 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 2016.