Unclassified road crash in Dover CT15 on 18 December 2016 at 20:11 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on an unclassified road in Dover at 20:11 on Sunday 18 December 2016. The 30-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2016
- Sunday, 20:11
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.2132, longitude 1.25153, in the CT15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dover
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016460142640
- Council area
- Dover
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 34 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 October 1985.
Slight
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Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Dover, 26 September 1982
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dover, 20 February 1988
258 m awayRef 198846DB01988
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Dover, 5 October 1996
337 m awayRef 199646SK28487
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Dover, 1 May 2013
605 m awayRef 2013460227101
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- 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 2016460142640 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Dover road accident statistics for 2016.