Serious unclassified road crash in Folkestone and Hythe TN28 on 24 February 2017 at 17:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Folkestone and Hythe at 17:30 on Friday 24 February 2017. A 12-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Feb 2017
- Friday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.98735, longitude 0.94398, in the TN28 postcode district and within the built-up area of New Romney. It is one of the crashes that make up the New Romney, Folkestone and Hythe, TN28 8LF area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017460159906
- Council area
- Folkestone and Hythe
- 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
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 July 2018.
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on the A259 in Folkestone and Hythe, 10 July 2018
4 m awayRef 2018460315648
Slight
Car crash on the A259 in Folkestone and Hythe, 13 July 2002
5 m awayRef 200246WL61238
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A259 in Folkestone and Hythe, 10 April 1994
5 m awayRef 1994460915910
Slight
Audi Q7 crash on the A259 in Folkestone and Hythe, 24 November 2015
5 m awayRef 2015460264326
Slight
Seat Ateca crash on the A259 in Folkestone and Hythe, 4 February 2025
5 m awayRef 2025461550145
Serious
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A259 in Folkestone and Hythe, 3 May 2014
5 m awayRef 2014460241132
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- 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 2017460159906 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Folkestone and Hythe road accident statistics for 2017.