Unclassified road crash in Thanet CT9 on 7 October 2016 at 17:30 involving an Audi A4
An Audi A4 and a Sanli motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Thanet at 17:30 on Friday 7 October 2016. The 17-year-old male rider of the Sanli motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Oct 2016
- Friday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A4 and Sanli
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.38866, longitude 1.38279, 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
- 2016460118983
- Council area
- Thanet
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- 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
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 March 1992.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Thanet, 7 March 1992
At the same spotRef 1992460700382
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Thanet, 18 August 2008
At the same spotRef 2008460161668
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Thanet, 12 March 2001
At the same spotRef 200146TH37883
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Thanet, 2 February 2000
10 m awayRef 200046TH12471
Serious
Mitsubishi Asx crash on the B2055 in Thanet, 14 February 2025
10 m awayRef 2025461554682
Slight
Peugeot Expert crash on the B2055 in Thanet, 26 August 2014
20 m awayRef 2014460245937
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Sanli
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Sanli)
- 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 2016460118983 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.