A28 crash in Thanet on 29 November 2016 at 18:15 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo, a Peugeot Partner van and a Fiat 500 were involved in a crash on the A28 in Thanet at 18:15 on Tuesday 29 November 2016. The 22-year-old female driver of the Fiat 500 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
- 29 Nov 2016
- Tuesday, 18:15
- Vehicles
- 3
- Volkswagen Polo and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.3731, longitude 1.30564, in the CT7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Margate. It is one of the crashes that make up the Birchington South, Thanet, CT7 9TB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Thanet
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016460133855
- 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
- 28
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 December 2018.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Thanet, 25 December 2018
14 m awayRef 2018460354542
Slight
Ford Ka+ crash on the A28 in Thanet, 22 October 2020
39 m awayRef 2020460996192
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A28 in Thanet, 25 November 2015
40 m awayRef 2015460264350
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A28 in Thanet, 23 December 1996
41 m awayRef 199646TH29692
Slight
Bedford crash on the A28 in Thanet, 17 September 1991
41 m awayRef 199146ED16741
Slight
Car crash on the A28 in Thanet, 7 April 2002
41 m awayRef 200246TH56141
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Peugeot Partner
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Fiat 500)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2016460133855 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.