B2055 crash in Thanet on 7 September 2016 at 10:18 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series and a Suzuki Wagon R+ were involved in a crash on the B2055 in Thanet at 10:18 on Wednesday 7 September 2016. The 29-year-old male driver of the Rover 200 Series and the 33-year-old female driver of the Suzuki Wagon R+ were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Sep 2016
- Wednesday, 10:18
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 200 Series and Suzuki Wagon R+
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.3846, longitude 1.38348, in the CT9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Margate. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cliftonville West, Thanet, CT9 1QT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Thanet
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016460109120
- Council area
- Thanet
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2055
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Authorised person
- 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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 September 2002.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Thanet, 24 September 2002
9 m awayRef 200246TH64228
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Thanet, 25 October 1997
9 m awayRef 199746TH01145
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Thanet, 18 December 2000
9 m awayRef 200046TH33940
Slight
Volkswagen Lupo crash on the B2055 in Thanet, 3 November 2011
19 m awayRef 2011460206724
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A255 in Thanet, 1 February 1989
19 m awayRef 198946ED02319
Slight
Car crash on the A255 in Thanet, 7 August 1983
19 m awayRef 1983465106213
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Suzuki Wagon R+
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,298 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Suzuki Wagon R+)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most 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 2016460109120 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 2016.